English
Noun
lumbar puncture (plural lumbar punctures)
- (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.
- Synonyms: LP (initialism), spinal tap (informal); (uncommon) rachicentesis, rhachicentesis
Translations
procedure to collect cerebrospinal fluid
- Arabic: بَزْل قَطَنِيّ (bazl qaṭaniyy)
- Armenian: գոտկային պունկցիա (hy) (gotkayin punkcʻia)
- Asturian: punción lumbar f
- Azerbaijani: lümbal punksiya
- Basque: ziztada lunbar
- Catalan: punció lumbar f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 腰椎穿刺 (jiu1 zeoi1 cyun1 ci3)
- Mandarin: 腰椎穿刺 (yāozhuī chuāncì)
- Czech: lumbální punkce f
- Danish: lumbalpunktur c
- Dutch: lumbaalpunctie (nl) f
- Finnish: lannepisto
- French: ponction lombaire (fr) f
- Galician: punción lumbar f
- German: Lumbalpunktion f
- Hungarian: gerinccsapolás (hu)
- Icelandic: mænuástunga f
- Irish: polladh lumbach m
- Italian: puntura lombare f, rachicentesi (it) f
- Japanese: 腰椎穿刺 (ようついせんし, youtsui senshi)
- Kazakh: беломыртқа тесу (belomyrtqa tesu)
- Korean: 요추천자 (yochucheonja)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: spinalpunksjon m, lumbalpunksjon m
- Nynorsk: spinalpunksjon m
- Persian: پونکسیون کمری
- Polish: nakłucie lędźwiowe f
- Portuguese: punção lombar f
- Russian: люмба́льная пу́нкция (ru) f (ljumbálʹnaja púnkcija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лумбална пункција f
- Roman: lumbalna punkcija f
- Spanish: punción lumbar f
- Swedish: lumbalpunktion c
- Tamil: முதுகுத் தண்டுவட துளையிடுதல் (mutukut taṇṭuvaṭa tuḷaiyiṭutal)
- Thai: การเจาะน้ำไขสันหลัง (gaan jòr náam kăi săn lăng)
- Turkish: lomber ponksiyon
- Ukrainian: люмба́льна пункція f (ljumbálʹna punkcija)
- Welsh: pigiad meingefnol m
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