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Definition of Cerebrospinal fluid

1. Noun. Clear liquid produced in the ventricles of the brain; fills and protects cavities in the brain and spinal cord.

Definition of Cerebrospinal fluid

1. Noun. (medicine) ''Abbreviated CSF.'' A clear bodily fluid in the form of a very pure saline solution with microglia that occupies the subarachnoid space in the brain (between the skull and the cerebral cortex), and which acts as a cushion or buffer for the cortex. ¹

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Medical Definition of Cerebrospinal fluid

1. A clear, colourless fluid that contains small quantities of glucose and protein. Cerebrospinal fluid fills the ventricles of the brain and the central canal of the spinal cord. Analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid can be accomplished using lumbar puncture. The presence of white blood cells or bacteria within the cerebrospinal fluid can indicate a bacterial infection (meningitis). Acronym: CSF (12 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cerebrospinal Fluid

Literary usage of Cerebrospinal fluid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"Examination of the cerebrospinal fluid for syphilis consists in counting the cells, testing for the presence of globulin, performing the Wassermann reaction ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"THE METHOD OF OBTAINING cerebrospinal fluid BT PUNCTURE OF THE CISTERNA MAGNA ... Dixon and Halliburton,6 in 1913, showed that the cerebrospinal fluid ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Lumbar Puncture and Examination of Gere* brospinal Fluid Lumbar puncture and examinations of the cerebrospinal fluid have already been described (see ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"The reaction is apt to be negative in the serum or cerebrospinal fluid in cases of hemiplegia, non-progressive tabes dorsalis, and old lesions of the ..."

5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"Withdraw stilet and as soon as cerebrospinal fluid appears, ... Then open side arm and collect cerebrospinal fluid in graduated sterile test tube. ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"The reaction is apt to be negative in the serum or cerebrospinal fluid in cases of hemiplegia, non-progressive tabes dorsalis, and old lesions of the ..."

7. A Manual of clinical diagnosis by means of laboratory methods, for students by Charles Edmund Simon (1902)
"ACCORDING to our present knowledge, the cerebrospinal fluid is secreted by ... As soon as the subarachnoid space is reached cerebrospinal fluid will flow ..."

8. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1918)
"The cerebrospinal fluid is normally under a pressure of from 5 to 20 millimeters ... The cerebrospinal fluid will in pathological states vary in respect to ..."

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