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Lumbago Lumbar Loin Sirloin Lordosis
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ LUMBAGO  id+ | ALGIA or LOIN PAIN |
~ LUMBAR   id+ | LOIN AREA |   see> LOIN 
           from 
  lat   LUMBUS =  or plural 
        LUMBI     LOIN 
        LUMBARE   LOIN CLOTH               
  sp    LOMO      SIRLOIN 
  med>  LUMBAGO   LOWER BACK PAIN 
        LORDOSIS  EXAGGERATED CURVATURE 
                  OF THE LUMBAR SPINE producing 
                  PROMINENT BUTTOCKS as in 
                  see> ACHONDROPLASIA
  biol> LUBMAR SPINE or VERTEBRA IN HUMANS 
        ARE FIVE AND CONNECT THE 
  see>  SACRUM WITH THE DORSAL VERTEBRA 
  lit+  LOIN CLOTH CONVEYS IDEAS OF SEXUAL MODESTY
  myth> ZEUS HAD INDEFATIGABLE LOINS
        THE NUMBER OF HIS MATES AND
  THE NUMBER AND DIVERSITY OF HIS OFFSPRING PROVE IT
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