How to Use spinal tap in a Sentence

spinal tap

noun

• A dozen tubes of blood were sent to the lab, along with fluid obtained from a spinal tap.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• But after the spinal tap and a PET scan, the doctors called asking the couple to come in.
  — Joe Sexton, ProPublica, 12 Oct. 2020
• He was scheduled for a biopsy and a spinal tap—last-ditch efforts to find the source of his illness.
  — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 25 Sep. 2021
• The procedure is called a lumbar puncture, aka a spinal tap.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 15 Apr. 2023
• Sometimes, a spinal tap is given too, and the fluid is analyzed for signs of MS.
  — Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2022
• It is injected into the spinal fluid through a spinal tap.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2019
• The second is a spinal tap, which is cheaper—to the tune of hundreds of dollars—and is covered by insurance.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 30 July 2020
• MRIs, CT scans, spinal taps, along with discoveries about the brain’s chemistry have changed our view of migraine.
  — Sibbie O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 10 June 2019
• He was headed for a spinal tap and chemotherapy treatment that would take seven hours and a whole day of fasting.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 Feb. 2022
• One of the initiatives Petty is working on with Morris is a demonstration of a spinal tap.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 19 July 2019
• Even then, the tests are very expensive and cumbersome, involving brain scans and spinal taps.
  — Alison Abbott, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2018
• Also, spinal taps can show whether amyloid and tau proteins are present in cerebrospinal fluid.
  — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
• There, a spinal tap led to a diagnosis of meningitis caused by Valley fever.
  — Fox News, 3 Feb. 2023
• Central oxytocin was in most cases measured in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) via spinal tap .
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2017
• Gust explained that spinal taps on these patients show high levels of cytokines floating in the fluid surrounding the spine and brain.
  — Ilana Yurkiewicz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2019
• Before starting the drug, doctors must confirm a patient has amyloid in the brain, which can be detected by a PET scan or a spinal tap.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 6 July 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
• What researchers are trying to do is come up with a blood test that could kind of detect this protein in your blood, rather than having to go to that extra step of the spinal tap or the brain scan.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
• People do not exactly look forward to getting a spinal tap.
  — Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2019
• But that first spinal tap had detected what was going on in Kevin's brain the whole time: beta-amyloid proteins, the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.
  — AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
• The biopsy and the spinal tap were suddenly irrelevant.
  — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 25 Sep. 2021
• The doctor performed a spinal tap, plunging a 31/2-inch needle into his spine on three occasions.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2020
• Brain imaging, bloodwork and a spinal tap were among the procedures that Aislynn underwent.
  — Terry Demio, The Enquirer, 5 May 2022
• To qualify for the drug, patients must have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and undergo blood tests, a spinal tap or brain scans to check for the presence of beta amyloid.
  — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 12 June 2021
• That can be done with an imaging test called a PET scan, a spinal tap in which a needle is inserted into a patient’s back to withdraw spinal fluid, or a blood test.
  — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 14 July 2023
• Biogen is also picking up some of the laboratory costs for patients who get a spinal tap.
  — Julie Appleby, CNN, 23 July 2021
• Each painful spinal tap produced less than a quarter of a teaspoon of fluid, and the amount and quality depended on who was doing the procedure.
  — Jason Dearen, Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021
• One way was a spinal tap, whereby doctors could obtain cerebrospinal fluid, the fluid around your brain and spine, and measure levels of tau and amyloid, which change if the disease is present.
  — Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2019
• Physicians currently must perform a spinal tap and imaging tests when trying to diagnose Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
• Other tests may include tissue sampling or a spinal tap called a lumbar puncture during which fluid is removed from two bones in the lower spine for testing.
  — Clare Fisher, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024