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small of the back
( anatomy ) The relatively narrow , lumbar region of the back.
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “McWatt”, in Catch-22 [ … ] , New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster , →OCLC , page 70 :The plan was not feasible, for making a ninety-degree turn would have been impossible without nickel-alloy swivels inserted in the small of every man's back , and Lieutenant Scheisskopf was not sanguine at all about obtaining that many nickel-alloy swivels from Quartermaster or enlisting the cooperation of the surgeons at the hospital.
1984 , William Gibson , Neuromancer (Sprawl ; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN , page 9 :He remembered the smell of her skin in the overheated darkness of a coffin near the port, her fingers locked across the small of his back .
lumbar region of the back
Arabic: مُسْتَدَقّ الظَّهْر m ( mustadaqq aẓ-ẓahr )
Egyptian Arabic: (please verify ) خربة f ( ḵorba )
Azerbaijani: bel (az)
Bashkir: бил ( bil )
Belarusian: паясні́ца f ( pajasníca ) , крыж m ( kryž ) , крыжаві́на f ( kryžavína )
Chinese:
Mandarin: ( formal ) 腰骶部 ( yāodǐbù ) , ( informal ) 腰部 (zh) ( yāobù )
Finnish: lanneselkä
French: cambrure (des reins) (fr) f
Galician: rens m pl , rexión lumbar f , cadrís m pl
German: Kreuz (de) n
Greek: οσφύς (el) f ( osfýs )
Japanese: 腰 の くびれ ( こしのくびれ, koshi no kubire )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: (please verify ) korsrygg m
Ottoman Turkish: بل ( bel )
Polish: nerki f pl ( colloquial ) , lędźwie (pl) pl ( literary )
Portuguese: região lombar f
Russian: поясни́ца (ru) f ( pojasníca ) , (archaic) чре́сла (ru) n pl ( črésla ) , че́ресла n pl ( čéresla ) ( dialectal ) , чересла́ n pl ( čereslá ) ( dialectal )
Spanish: región lumbar f cintura (es) f
Swedish: ländrygg (sv) , korsrygg (sv) c
Talysh: çobənd
Turkish: bel (tr)
Ukrainian: по́перек m ( póperek ) , попере́к m ( poperék ) , кри́жі m pl ( krýži ) ( dialectal ) , че́ресла n pl ( čéresla ) ( dialectal )