spinal tapin a sentence
- His voice sounds plaintive, not angry, as he lectures: You do not administer an antibiotic to a person with meningitis until you have done a spinal tap and know the variety of meningitis and thus which drug will work.† (source)
- It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.† (source)
- They didn't know what was wrong with her, so they did a spinal tap to make sure she didn't have meningitis.† (source)
- Amongst other purposes, a spinal tap is helpful in diagnosing multiple sclerosis.
- Only in Haiti would a child cry out that she's hungry during a spinal tap."† (source)
- Farmer had told me on the plane to Moscow that he was tired of the World Bank meetings and the arguments, in conference rooms that grew increasingly airless, where there were no patients, his thoughts straying back to Cange: When the next meningitis victim came in, would one of the doctors, in his absence, do a spinal tap?† (source)