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Spinal Puncture

"Spinal Puncture" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Tapping fluid from the subarachnoid space in the lumbar region, usually between the third and fourth lumbar vertebrae.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Spinal Puncture" by people in this website by year, and whether "Spinal Puncture" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 23 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2012
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