cerebrospinal fluid

NOUN
  1. clear liquid produced in the ventricles of the brain; fills and protects cavities in the brain and spinal cord
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How To Use cerebrospinal fluid In A Sentence

  • Patients with treatment failure should be tested for HIV infection and evaluated for neurosyphilis with a cerebrospinal fluid examination.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cerebrospinal fluid was obtained from the lumbar spinal taps or the intrathecal catheter.
  • Between the pia and arachnoid membranes is the subarachnoid space, in which the cerebrospinal fluid circulates.
  • Both agents cross into the cerebrospinal fluid in equipotent amounts
  • Cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of ethionamide in children with tuberculous meningitis. Undefined
  • After 2 h of equilibration the medial perforant path was stimulated and the evoked potentials in the dentate gyrus were recorded in the molecular layer above the upper blade by using a glass capillary microelectrode filled with artificial cerebrospinal fluid PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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