lumber
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This technique is particularly effective for lumbars, as the stripes create an elongating effect.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2023
It’s because their lumbars were all screaming in agony.
From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2020
The original couch was rather fulsomely puckered, leaving lumbars unsupported and offering so little buttock space that would-be loungers slipped off onto the floor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2016
Comparing the resulting ratios to those obtained for lumbar vertebrae from modern Homo, early Homo and Australopithecus, she determined that the MH1 lumbar vertebrae align with Homo yet the MH2 lumbars group with Australopithecus.
From Scientific American • Apr. 17, 2014
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