cerebrospinal fluid.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

To obtain cerebrospinal fluid (the fluid that circulates around the brain and spinal cord) to look for infection or cancer cells, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lumbar Puncture] Reference

This disease may be mistaken at times for foreign bodies in the mouth or for the so-called cerebrospinal meningitis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

First they measured levels of the protein, called cerebrospinal fluid CSF amyloid, which is often depressed in Alzheimer's sufferers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Removal of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for diagnostic purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

These blood vessels leak, and are the source of the cerebrospinal fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

She saw the anterior horns, two black ovals filled with cerebrospinal fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Support] Reference

Adult hydrocephalus is caused by excess cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planning is Everything with an Alzheimer's or Dementia Diagnosis] Reference

They can give spinal taps to look for that gooey amyloid in cerebrospinal fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found To Predict Alzheimer's] Reference

To monitor and relieve cerebrospinal fluid pressure for patients with pseudotumor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lumbar Puncture] Reference

It is possible for the circulation of the cerebrospinal fluid to be interfered with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Doctors in Texas said she had been given a tube to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctors upgrade Giffords' condition from serious to good] Reference

Does not enter the cerebrospinal fluid (cannot be used in the treatment of meningitis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

Body Fluid Cell Count and Differential (includes cerebrospinal fluid, among other body fluids).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hematology Lab] Reference

These are richly supplied with blood vessels, and into these the cerebrospinal fluid is absorbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

The separation of the brain, which is bathed in a clear cerebrospinal fluid, from the bloodstream.    From Wordnik.com.  [blood-brain barrier] Reference

These hollows " the central canal and the various ventricles " are filled with cerebrospinal fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

For example, your blood, cerebrospinal fluids, pleural effusion, semen†¦ ” “Whoa.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2007 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

A small amount of cerebrospinal fluid is removed and contrast is injected, and the needle is removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helene Pavlov: What is a Myelogram?] Reference

There is a blood-cerebrospinal barrier that seems to prevent many substances from entering the fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

These are the voluntary muscles and are stimulated by impulses from fibers of the cerebrospinal nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muscles Part 1] Reference

Cranial space that would otherwize have been filled by gray matter is now filled with cerebrospinal fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regarding The CAT Scan Of Terri Schiavo’s Brain] Reference

Since cerebrospinal fluid is continually seeping into the ventricles, it must be allowed to escape somewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

The cerebrospinal fluid acts as a cushion in all these cases, damping the relative motions of brain and skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Both the vestibule and the structures within it are filled with a thin fluid much like the cerebrospinal fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

The cerebrospinal fluid supplies a buoyancy that almost entirely neutralizes gravitational pull within the skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

It was three inches long, twenty-two-gauge gleaming steel, the hub end open to allow cerebrospinal fluid to drip out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodstream] Reference

A small amount of cerebrospinal fluid, which surrounds the brain and spinal cord, can be removed and sent for testing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brain Tumor - Diagnosis and Treatment] Reference

Diagnosis: Laboratory examination of the cerebrospinal fluid will usually confirm the presence of a bacterial meningitis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

It has been shown by these investigations that the serum reaction is more refractory than the cerebrospinal fluid reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julius Wagner-Jauregg - Nobel Lecture] Reference

In another study, mercury levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of MS patients were shown to be eight times higher than in controls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellen Brown: The Mercury Mischief: As Obama Warns of Hazards, The FDA Approves Mercury Dental Fillings] Reference

We know that they are those luetics in whom the cerebrospinal fluid in the advanced period of latency gives a positive reaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julius Wagner-Jauregg - Nobel Lecture] Reference

The cerebrospinal fluid is also to be found in the hollows within the brain and spinal cord, and this brings us to another point.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Apparently, dementia may be correlated with cranial compliance, a measure of how cerebrospinal fluid circulates around the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

The blue areas are remaining brain tissue but most of the scan shows black areas which are essentially fluid cerebrospinal fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [More about Terri’s Brain and Diagnosing PVS] Reference

Court of Claims -- of the reliability of the witnesses 'account that measles RNA was detected in her bowel and cerebrospinal fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arthur Allen: In Autism-Vaccine Case, RNA and a Prayer] Reference

This type of glial tumor usually arises from the cells lining the ventricles — the cerebrospinal fluid-filled cavities in the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brain Tumor - Diagnosis and Treatment] Reference

The work will include non-human experiments and a small clinical study to measure lorcaserin concentrations in human cerebrospinal fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Concerns Emerge About Arena Pharma's Diet Drug] Reference

These are areas present in every brain which serve as collecting areas for cerebrospinal fluid previously referred to as “brain fluid”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terri Schiavo news] Reference