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SPINAL-TAP


subject field: medicine: diagnostic procedure
check date: 29/08/2001
checker: Pamela
origination date: 11/07/2000
originator: CATI

Conceptual Structures
ISAINVASIVE-DIAGNOSTIC-TEST
ANCESTORSALL
DIAGNOSTIC-PROCEDURE
EVENT
HEALTH-SERVE
INVASIVE-DIAGNOSTIC-TEST
MEDICAL-SERVE
PROFESSIONAL-SERVICE-EVENT
SERVICE-EVENT
SOCIAL-EVENT
WORK-ACTIVITY
RELATIONSDIAGNOSTIC-TEST-FOR : METASTATIC-CANCER
    BRAIN-TUMOR
    MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-FEMALE-BREAST


English
spinal tapterm type: main entry term
part of speech: noun
number: singular
reliability code: 10
definition: microscopic examination of a small amount of the fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord after its removal with a needle. This is a diagnostic procedure for brain cancer, breast cancer, metastatic cancer, leukemia, as well as other types of cancer. (en)
check date: 11/08/2001
checker: Pamela
lumbar punctureterm type: synonym
definition: see spinal tap. (en)
part of speech: noun
number: singular
reliability code: 10
origination date: 11/07/2000
originator: Claudia
spinal punctureterm type: synonym
definition: see spinal tap. (en)
part of speech: noun
number: singular
reliability code: 10
origination date: 11/07/2000
originator: Claudia
LPdefinition: see spinal tap. (en)
term type: acronym
part of speech: noun
number: singular
reliability code: 10
origination date: 05/02/2001
originator: Claudia

Spanish
punción espinal lumbardefinition: ver punción lumbar. (es)
term type: main entry term
part of speech: noun
number: singular
gender: feminine
reliability code: 10
origination date: 11/07/2000
originator: Claudia
punción lumbarterm type: main entry term
part of speech: noun
number: singular
gender: feminine
reliability code: 10
definition: procedimiento diagnóstico invasiv que consiste en la punción del conducto raquídeo, ordinariamente entre las vértebras LIII y LIV y que tiene por objeto permitir la salida de una cantidad de líquido cefalorraquídeo para el examen del mismo. Este procedimiento se usa en el diagóstico de cáncer de mama, cáncer cerebral, leucemia y otros tipos de cáncer. (es)
origination date: 17/01/2001
originator: Claudia