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lumbar part of spinal cord(medicine)
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Steinbeck, John (oh) and lumbar cord (medicine)


Steinbeck, John (oh)



(1902-68) a US writer whose novels, including The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men show great sympathy for poor people and their problems. He is one of the most popular and admired US writers of the 20th century, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

lumbar cord (medicine)


lumbar cord


That part of the cord that consists of the five lumbar segments and gives rise to the five pairs of lumbar nerves.

Synonym: pars lumbalis medullae spinalis.