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A 29-year-old female presents to clinic with complaints of blood in her stool. She says that recently she has had abdominal pain which she thought was associated with her menstrual cycle, however she has had two episodes of bloody diarrhea in the last 2 days. Vital signs are within normal limits. Physical examination reveals tenderness to palpation of the left lower quadrant. A referral to gastroenterology is made and further work-up reveals diagnosis of ulcerative colitis. Given this patient’s diagnosis, which of the following vertebral segments would most likely exhibit viscerosomatic changes?