"spinal tap" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-us-spinal tap.oga Forms: spinal taps [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} spinal tap (plural spinal taps)
  1. (medicine, colloquial) Lumbar puncture (LP). Wikipedia link: spinal tap Tags: colloquial Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (colloquial terms for lumbar puncture): 腰椎穿刺 (yāozhuī chuāncì) (Chinese Mandarin), selkäydinpunktio (Finnish), Lumbalpunktion [feminine] (German), mænuástunga [feminine] (Icelandic), punción lumbar [feminine] (Spanish)

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