extracorporeal /ex·tra·cor·po·re·al/ (-kor-por´e-al) situated or occurring outside the body.
Extracorporeal
extracorporeal
extracorporeal [ek″strah-kor-por´e-al]
extracorporeal
ex·tra·cor·po·re·al ( k str -kôr-pôr  -l)adj. Situated or occurring outside the body. |
Extracorporeal
Outside of, or unrelated to, the body.
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extracorporeal
[ek′strakôr′pôr′ē·əl]
Etymology: L, extra + corpus, body
something that is outside the body, such as extracorporeal circulation in which venous blood is diverted outside the body to a heart-lung machine and returned to the body through a femoral or other artery.
extracorporeal [ek″strah-kor-por´e-al]
located or occurring outside the body.
extracorporeal
situated or occurring outside the body.
extracorporeal circulation
the circulation of blood outside the body, as through a hemodialyzer for removal of substances usually excreted in the urine, or through an extracorporeal circulatory support unit for carbon dioxide-oxygen exchange (see below).
extracorporeal circulatory support unit
a heart-lung machine. In animals used mainly in the investigation of cardiac prosthetic devices.
extracorporeal
adjective Referring to circulation of blood that occurs outside the body–eg, via apheresis. See Apheresis.
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