"lumbar puncture" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: lumbar punctures [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} lumbar puncture (plural lumbar punctures)
  1. (medicine) A diagnostic and at times therapeutic procedure performed to collect a sample of cerebrospinal fluid for biochemical, microbiological, and cytological analysis, or rarely to relieve increased intracranial pressure. Wikipedia link: lumbar puncture Categories (topical): Medicine Synonyms: spinal tap, LP [abbreviation] Translations (procedure to collect cerebrospinal fluid): بَزْل قَطَنِيّ (bazl qaṭaniyy) (Arabic), գոտկային պունկցիա (gotkayin punkcʻia) (Armenian), punción lumbar [feminine] (Asturian), lümbal punksiya (Azerbaijani), ziztada lunbar (Basque), punció lumbar [feminine] (Catalan), 腰椎穿刺 (jiu¹ zeoi¹ cyun¹ ci³) (Chinese Cantonese), 腰椎穿刺 (yāozhuī chuāncì) (Chinese Mandarin), lumbální punkce [feminine] (Czech), lumbalpunktur [common-gender] (Danish), lumbaalpunctie [feminine] (Dutch), lannepisto (Finnish), ponction lombaire [feminine] (French), punción lumbar [feminine] (Galician), Lumbalpunktion [feminine] (German), gerinccsapolás (Hungarian), mænuástunga [feminine] (Icelandic), polladh lumbach [masculine] (Irish), puntura lombare [feminine] (Italian), 腰椎穿刺 (youtsui senshi) (alt: ようついせんし) (Japanese), беломыртқа тесу (belomyrtqa tesu) (Kazakh), 요추천자 (yochucheonja) (Korean), spinalpunksjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), lumbalpunksjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), spinalpunksjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), پونکسیون کمری (Persian), nakłucie lędźwiowe [feminine] (Polish), punção lombar [feminine] (Portuguese), люмба́льная пу́нкция (ljumbálʹnaja púnkcija) [feminine] (Russian), лумбална пункција [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), lumbalna punkcija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), punción lumbar [feminine] (Spanish), lumbalpunktion [common-gender] (Swedish), முதுகுத் தண்டுவட துளையிடுதல் (mutukut taṇṭuvaṭa tuḷaiyiṭutal) (Tamil), การเจาะน้ำไขสันหลัง (gaan jòr náam kăi săn lăng) (Thai), lomber ponksiyon (Turkish), люмба́льна пункція (ljumbálʹna punkcija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), pigiad meingefnol [masculine] (Welsh)

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      "roman": "mutukut taṇṭuvaṭa tuḷaiyiṭutal",
      "sense": "procedure to collect cerebrospinal fluid",
      "word": "முதுகுத் தண்டுவட துளையிடுதல்"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "gaan jòr náam kăi săn lăng",
      "sense": "procedure to collect cerebrospinal fluid",
      "word": "การเจาะน้ำไขสันหลัง"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "procedure to collect cerebrospinal fluid",
      "word": "lomber ponksiyon"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ljumbálʹna punkcija",
      "sense": "procedure to collect cerebrospinal fluid",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "люмба́льна пункція"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "procedure to collect cerebrospinal fluid",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pigiad meingefnol"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lumbar puncture"
}

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