Examples of lumbar puncture in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The lumbar puncture did not go smoothly, with multiple attempts needed in order to access my CSF. — Jodi Ettenberg, CNN, 29 Jan. 2022 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 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 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 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 After the test, she was transferred back to the Royal Oak campus and admitted to the pediatric ICU for sedation and a series of tests, including a lumbar puncture. — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 20 Apr. 2020 Skylar was then admitted to the pediatric ICU at the hospital -- located in a northern suburb of Detroit, Mich., -- where she was given a lumbar puncture and the family learned of her meningitis condition. — Fox News, 20 Apr. 2020 But Bennett thought that delivering them directly to the cerebrospinal fluid via lumbar puncture might work. — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020 See More

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“Lumbar puncture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lumbar%20puncture. Accessed 25 May. 2022.

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