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Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Side of the body between the rib cage and the hip
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Flank
Surface lines of the front of the thorax and abdomen. (Latus labeled as "lumbar".)
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Latinregio lateralis
TA98A01.2.04.004
TA2259
FMA14603
Anatomical terminology[edit on Wikidata]

The flank or latus is the side of the body between the rib cage and the iliac bone of the hip (below the rib cage and above the ilium).[1]

It is sometimes called the lumbar region.

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  1. ^ Alberts, Daniel Albert; et al. (2012). Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary (32nd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders/Elsevier. p. 714. ISBN 978-1-4160-6257-8.
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