spinal tap

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Noun

spinal tap (plural spinal taps)

(medicine, colloquial) Lumbar puncture (LP).
- 2017, Sam Shepard, Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 5:
  Then they tested my spinal column. They gave me a spinal tap even.

Translations

colloquial terms for lumbar puncture

Chinese:
Mandarin: 腰椎穿刺 (yāozhuī chuāncì)
Finnish: selkäydinpunktio
German: Lumbalpunktion f
Icelandic: mænuástunga f
Spanish: punción lumbar f

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