LUMBAR NERVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lumbar nerve mean? 

• LUMBAR NERVE (noun)
  The noun LUMBAR NERVE has 1 sense:

1. any of five pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the lumbar section of the spinal cord

  Familiarity information: LUMBAR NERVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUMBAR NERVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of five pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the lumbar section of the spinal cord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("lumbar nerve" is a kind of...):

nervus spinalis; spinal nerve (any of the 31 pairs of nerves emerging from each side of the spinal cord (each attached to the cord by two roots: ventral and dorsal))

 Context examples 

A nerve that arises from the second, third, and fourth lumbar nerves and enters the thigh through the obturator canal.

(Obturator Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)

A nerve that originates from the lumbar nerves and innervates the anterior region of the thigh.

(Femoral Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)