How to Use lumbar puncture in a Sentence

lumbar puncture

noun

• The procedure is called a lumbar puncture, aka a spinal tap.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 15 Apr. 2023
• These tests include either a PET scan or a lumbar puncture, otherwise known as a spinal tap.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 July 2023
• Health care providers are advised to give anyone exposed a lumbar puncture to look for signs of infection.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 30 June 2023
• Another way to diagnose the disease is through a lumbar puncture, or spinal tap.
  — Eliezer J Sternberg, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2019
• The test to confirm a parechovirus diagnosis detects the DNA of the virus in cerebrospinal fluid, which requires a lumbar puncture, often known as a spinal tap.
  — Stephanie Innes, The Arizona Republic, 13 Aug. 2022
• Meningitis testing includes an MRI and a lumbar puncture, also called a spinal tap.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
• The drug will now be given once every two months by lumbar puncture instead of every month, said Ionis partner Roche.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2019
• After months of cognitive tests and a lumbar puncture to assess spinal fluid, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
• However, PET scans can cost thousands of dollars, and many patients dread a lumbar puncture to collect spinal fluid.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 21 July 2021
• The lumbar puncture did not go smoothly, with multiple attempts needed in order to access my CSF.
  — Jodi Ettenberg, CNN, 29 Jan. 2022
• This hollow needle goes in between two vertebrae (back bones) in your lower spine, and a fluid sample is collected.3 Like with the blood test, there are very few risks to having a lumbar puncture.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 15 Apr. 2023
• It is injected into the cerebrospinal fluid through a lumbar puncture.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• This means newborns end up being transferred from their mothers’ arms to neonatal intensive care units for blood tests, X-rays and even lumbar punctures to test cerebral spinal fluid.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
• But Bennett thought that delivering them directly to the cerebrospinal fluid via lumbar puncture might work.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
• Using medical lumbar puncture to validate nasal oxytocin in humans is a great idea.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2013
• Blue Horizon treatments include injecting cells into an injured area of the body, an IV infusion of the cells for anti-aging effects, or in the case of treating brain injuries, a lumbar puncture.
  — Sarah Blaskey, miamiherald, 14 Apr. 2018
• There’s been a bone marrow aspiration, platelet transfusions, a lumbar puncture and chemotherapy, too.
  — oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2019
• Ayah also gets alternative medicine via a lumbar puncture every few months, which her mother described as similar to the epidural women get when having a baby.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 31 Mar. 2021
• Promising therapies for some diseases are administered through lumbar punctures, which are not a routine part of a doctor’s daily practice.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 6 Apr. 2023
• That is determined by amyloid PET scans - which can cost thousands of dollars and aren’t covered by Medicare except in a limited way in clinical trials - or lumbar punctures, also known as a spinal taps.
  — Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
• Doctors often need to perform a lumbar puncture, otherwise known as spinal tap, to sample spinal fluid and look for signs of inflammation and abnormal antibodies.
  — Aarti Sarwal, The Conversation, 7 July 2020
• To properly diagnose meningitis, a physician must test the spinal fluid of the affected individual by doing a lumbar puncture, or a spinal tap, as it's more commonly referred to.
  — Sarah Lemire, Health.com, 19 Jan. 2022
• That month, Jaden finally underwent several blood tests, including one for diabetes, which came back negative, and a lumbar puncture.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• The days-long hospital stay might include invasive testing such as a lumbar puncture, which is costly, uncomfortable for the child and family, and may turn out to be ultimately unnecessary.
  — Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2021
• Taylor began receiving a new treatment via lumbar puncture and saw immediate results.
  — Candace Jordan, chicagotribune.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• Some trials also asked patients to undergo successive lumbar punctures.
  — AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
• Currently, amyloid detection requires more invasive and expensive procedures like lumbar punctures or PET scans.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 30 Aug 2024