spinal tap

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Noun

spinal tap (plural spinal taps)

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Lumbar puncture (LP).
    • 2017, Sam Shepard, Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 5:
      Then they tested my spinal column. They gave me a spinal tap even.

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