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Definition of Lumbar artery
1. Noun. One of four or five pairs of arteries that originate in the abdominal aorta and supply the lumbar vertebrae and the back muscles and abdominal wall.
Medical Definition of Lumbar artery
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Literary usage of Lumbar artery
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1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The lumbar branch supplies the Psoas and Quadratus lumborum muscles, anastomosing
with the last lumbar artery, and sends a small spinal branch through the ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"In the interval between the adjacent transverse processes each lumbar artery
gives off a posterior ramus which is continued backward between the transverse ..."
3. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"... and even often before, the pelvic trunk gives off from its external side, and
at a right angle, the ilio-lumbar artery, which passes directly outwards, ..."
4. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"On the fifth lumbar vertebra, the place of a lumbar artery is often taken by a
branch from the middle sacral artery, and the ilio-lumbar compensates for the ..."
5. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"origin of the left lowest lumbar artery that it was difficult to determine whether
it was a branch of the lumbar artery or FIG. 2. ..."
6. Textbook of Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1905)
"Further, a lumbar artery may have its area df distribution increased to the ...
Not infrequently it arises from the last lumbar artery or from a stem common ..."
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