used as combining form of L. lumbus loin, as lumbo-abdominal a., pertaining to the loins and the abdomen (cf. ABDOMINAL); so lumbo-aortic, -costal, -inguinal, etc. (see Syd. Soc. Lex., 1889), -sacral, -vertebral adjs.; ǁ lumbodynia [mod. L.; hybrid f. Gr. ὀδύνη pain] = LUMBAGO.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 660. Neuralgia of the lumbar plexus, or *lumbo-abdominal neuralgia.
1866. A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880), 805. The affection is commonly known as lumbago. Valleix designated it *lumbodynia.
1840. E. Wilson, Anat. Vade M. (1842), 107. The *lumbo-iliac ligament is triangular in form.
1856. Quain’s Anat. (ed. 6), II. 632, note. Schmidt describes them as separate nerves, naming the genital branch, external spermatic, and the crural branch, *lumbo-inguinal.
1840. E. Wilson, Anat. Vade M. (1842), 14. The *lumbo-sacral nerve.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 258. The lumbo-sacral portion of the column is more frequently affected than any other.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 217. The *lumbo-vertebral anastomotic trunk of Braune.
