spinal tap

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

spinal tap (plural spinal taps)

1. (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