(1) He immediately ordered a spinal tap that confirmed polio, and she was moved to the floor for contagious diseases.

(2) Meanwhile, though rumours of a Spinal Tap sequel are exaggerated, the band do plan a London concert this summer.

(3) But a chest X-ray, spinal tap and urinalysis failed to confirm that.

(4) Its " Boogie Nights" meets "Spinal Tap" in this rowdy and heartwarming tale of life in the adult film industry.

(5) When treatment is needed, a spinal tap (lumbar puncture) is done. Then spinal fluid is removed and chemotherapy is injected into the spinal canal.

(6) They also found that the X-ray-guided form of spinal tap, called fluoroscopy-guided lumbar puncture, doubles the risk of bleeding in people older than 80 years compared to younger people.

(7) In paraphrase of a member of Spinal Tap, a fictional rock band of stupendous awfulness, there is a thin line between clever and stupid.

(8) Spinal tap procedures are often used to diagnose patients who have sudden severe headache, possible meningitis infection or cancers around the brain.

(9) "As Spinal Tap understood heavy metal and Dr Strangelove the Cold War, " says the film's production company, Warp Films, "Four Lions understands modern British jihadis."

(10) A spinal tap (also called a lumbar puncture) is used to check the spinal fluid for ALL-cells.

(11) I love you," Deborah urged in panic as doctors ordered a CAT scan and a spinal tap.

(12) That's like accepting the position as the drummer in Spinal Tap.

(13) Others have found that proteins from these plaques can be detected in the cerebrospinal fluid, which surrounds the spinal cord and can be accessed through a spinal tap.

(14) Your doctor will have to decide if the cause is bacterial, viral or fungal and will have to analyze your spinal fluid so a spinal tap will be ordered.

(15) The problem with the hypothesis was that it was not feasible to do a spinal tap before and after someone exercised to look for a flood of endorphins in the brain.

(16) No, there's no white count. She has no CT lesions, no fevers, nothing in her spinal tap. Just tell me.

(17) XP is extreme in the sense that it takes 12 well-known software development "best practices" to their logical extremes—turning them all up to "10" (or "11" for Spinal Tap fans).

(18) Other teams have shown spinal fluid tests, which require a spinal tap, can detect early changes that signal the onset of Alzheimer's, which affects at least 26 million people globally.

(19) If you are leaking, your best possible outcome is you have a really bad headache, kind of like you have a spinal tap or other piercing of the dura.