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LP

Abbreviation for lumbar puncture.
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LP

abbr.
1. Lower Peninsula
2. lumbar puncture
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LP

verb An abbreviation of a back-formation of the noun lumbar puncture, lumbar punctate; as in to lumbar puncture (LP) a patient.
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There was some discussion of a code for cataloguing phonograph records. Mr.
IT IS ALMOST LUDICROUS TO THINK OF THE GREAT FRANZ Rosenzweig as a mere reviewer of phonograph records. The author of the masterpiece "Star of Redemption" can hardly be conceived of as a journeyman music critic for a semi-popular magazine.
Within the last ten years, developments in phonophotography have gone by leaps and bounds to such an extent that at the present time we can record for scientific analysis not only the present musical performances, but what has been recorded on phonograph records and what is now recorded in sound movies on films, thus making it possible to compare musicians in all ranks and primitive music from all lands.
An example of a departure from the norms, which MLA was attempting to establish and maintain, is described in Ralph Moritz's article, "Cataloging Phonograph Records for the Veterans Hospitals." He reported a then-unique approach to the production and use of sound recordings.
Running right through the bulge is a dense elongated concentration of stars, as if someone had rammed a thick straw into the orange along the plane of the phonograph record. This tubelike clump of stars is known as the bar.
Tedco's latest toy is the Winger, a pliable, flyable, orange-colored ring that looks like a phonograph record with the middle cut out.
launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
When the two Voyager spacecraft flew past Saturn in the early 1980s, they revealed new moons and ripples in the icy rings, which from afar resemble the grooves of a vinyl phonograph record. Now, the Cassini spacecraft, which entered orbit around Saturn last year, has completed the most thorough examination ever of the rings.
Furthermore, recent radio studies of M77's water masers suggest that a warped phonograph record, not a doughnut, may be a better mental model for the galaxy's innards.
There was even Breyer's quaint reference to a ''phonograph record store.''
In 1977, copies of a golden phonograph record filled with sounds bearing witness to human civilization and Earth's flora and fauna were shot into space onboard both Voyager probes; they have been hurtling through space and time ever since.
The massive orb's gravity clears a ring-shaped gap in the rotating protoplanetary disk, similar to a deep groove in a phonograph record. This gap marks a boundary between the inner and outer parts of the disk.
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