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UK
/səɹˌiːbɹəspˈaɪnəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
cerebrospinal fluid
How To Use cerebrospinal In A Sentence
- Patients with treatment failure should be tested for HIV infection and evaluated for neurosyphilis with a cerebrospinal fluid examination.
- Methods Field epidemiology and serological investigation made. Results It was the first outbreak of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis caused by group C Neisseria meningitidis in Maoming.
- This may result in a blockage of the cerebrospinal fluid, the fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord.
- These include metabolite measurements for plasma, urine and cerebrospinal fluid amino acids using ion exchange chromatography, urine organic acids using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, and total and free carnitine levels and quantitative acylcarnitine profiles using electrospray tandem mass spectrometry. Laboratory Rotation
- Serial cerebrospinal examinations were then performed to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment.
- Cerebrospinal fluid specimens collected from Gombe, Jigawa, Kano and Katsina states have tested positive for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A by latex test and/or culture.
- The inevitable dehydration that this involves causes the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds and cushions the brain to dry up, allowing the brain to rattle around inside the skull like a conker in a biscuit tin.
- gives rise to a hernia of the meninges, which, if accompanied by cerebrospinal fluid in any quantity, causes a large and peculiarly shaped tumor called meningocele (Fig. 96). Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- Methods Gender, age, economic income, vaccine history, residence and immunologic function of 35 cases of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis and 70 normal people were analyzed.
- Cerebrospinal fluid was obtained from the lumbar spinal taps or the intrathecal catheter.