How to Use cerebrospinal fluid in a Sentence

cerebrospinal fluid

noun

• After the surgery, the space soon fills with cerebrospinal fluid.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
• Catch a glimpse of it when unprepared, and your cerebrospinal fluid will boil off.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 20 Apr. 2022
• The virus has been detected in cerebrospinal fluid, which is found in the brain and spinal cord.
  — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
• Here’s what happens when your cerebrospinal fluid stops working.
  — Danielle Wilhour, The Conversation, 28 May 2025
• The flow of blood to the brain slows down, and the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid speeds up.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
• All of the children had low levels of folate in their cerebrospinal fluid.
  — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 22 Jan. 2026
• The choroid plexus is a network of blood vessels that produce cerebrospinal fluid.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• Those proteins circulate in the cerebrospinal fluid more than in the blood.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 21 Oct. 2021
• Also, spinal taps can show whether amyloid and tau proteins are present in cerebrospinal fluid.
  — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
• West Nile can be detected through blood or cerebrospinal fluid tests.
  — Allie Kelly, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
• Researchers will be able to list animal parts for sale, from cerebrospinal fluid to whole organs.
  — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 11 Mar. 2024
• Tests showed that the waves increased the flow of clean cerebrospinal fluid into the brain and the flow of dirty fluid out of the brain.
  — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 26 June 2024
• This led them to the opening—the end of the trigeminal nerve that was in open contact with the cerebrospinal fluid.
  — Matthew Ponsford, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
• The disorder occurs when cerebrospinal fluid builds up inside the skull and presses on the brain.
  — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026
• This surgery can alleviate symptoms like headaches and improve the flow of cerebrospinal fluid.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
• There is also typically an increase in cerebrospinal fluid that fills space due to the loss of brain tissue.
  — Jessica Bernard, The Conversation, 24 Sep. 2021
• This can include samples of cerebrospinal fluid, urine, and blood as well as the oh-so familiar swabs of your throat and nasal passages.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• The thin brain barrier controls the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in and around the brain to support immune defense.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2023
• When the vessels clench after a pulse of norepinephrine, cerebrospinal fluid moves in to fill the gap.
  — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 Jan. 2025
• The drug was given by spinal injection into the cerebrospinal fluid, which circulates to the brain.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 18 July 2019
• Yankner said doctors might be able to measure lithium levels in the cerebrospinal fluid or blood, or through brain imaging.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
• Their stormy aches can be a sign of serious problems, like bleeding in the brain, a brain infection, or a cerebrospinal fluid leak.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Apr. 2018
• The brain normally reabsorbs cerebrospinal fluid at the same rate it is produced, but Scott’s does not.
  — Priority Health, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2018
• Proof would come from finding the virus in affected children’s cerebrospinal fluid, something nobody has seen yet.
  — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2015
• Lab tests confirmed the amoeba in the woman's cerebrospinal fluid, according to the report.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 5 June 2025
• Until then, the virus had been hard to pin down in the central nervous system, rarely showing up in cerebrospinal fluid—which is the case for polio virus as well.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
• The drug is injected once a month into the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord, similar to how Spinraza is given.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• Once that was done, the team put fluorescent tags in the mice’s blood, cerebrospinal fluid, and on the norepinephrine hormone.
  — Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2025
• The dura is a membrane that surrounds cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which cushions the spinal cord.
  — Samantha Lauriello, Health, 26 May 2024
• Published last week, Iram found that giving a week of infusions of cerebrospinal fluid from a younger mouse can help an older mouse’s memory.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 19 May 2022