lumbar triangle

lumbar triangle
a weak area in the abdomen bounded by the iliac crest (below), the external oblique muscle (in front), and the erector spinae muscle (behind). It can be the site of a lumbar hernia.

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lumbar triangle, inferior trigonum lumbale inferius.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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