English

Noun

lumbago ‎(countable and uncountable, plural lumbagos)

1. (pathology) Backache of the lumbar region or lower back, which can be caused by muscle strain or a slipped disk.
   • 1935, Francis Beeding, chapter 7/2, in The Norwich Victims:

     The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.

   • 1954, Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 105 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)

     We may imagine an athletics coach with a scientific training researching into the physiology and the psychology of runners. […] He finds out the effects of fatigue, of alcohol, of tobacco, of lumbago and of depression upon their performances.

Translations

Portuguese

Noun

lumbago m (plural lumbagos)

1. (pathology) lumbago (pain in the lower back)

Spanish

Noun

lumbago m ‎(plural lumbagos)

1. (pathology) lumbago