lumbar plexus

American  

noun

Anatomy.

1. a network of nerves originating in the spinal nerves of the midback region and innervating the pelvic area, the front of the legs, and part of the feet.

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Example Sentences

The lumbar plexus arises from all the lumbar spinal nerves and gives rise to nerves enervating the pelvic region and the anterior leg.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The lumbar plexus supplies nerves to the anterior leg.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

How many nerves from the lumbar plexus, and where do they ramify?

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin

This is doubtless due to the pressure of an enlarged ascending or descending colon upon some of the lumbar plexus nerves, or their branches.

From The Royal Road to Health by Tyrrell, Charles Alfred

Czerny observed a case in which the tumor involved the lumbar plexus.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)