lumbar puncture

English

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.

   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

See also

• intrathecal
• meningitis (disease that may require LP)