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extracorporeal /ex·tra·cor·po·re·al/ (-kor-por´e-al) situated or occurring outside the body.
Extracorporeal Outside of, or unrelated to, the body. Mentioned in: Acute Kidney Failure 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 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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New, a New York researcher has devised a novel approach called extracorporeal photopheresis, which involves treating blood outside the body with a drug activated by light. Reduced Intensity Transplant Using Extracorporeal Photopheresis This milestone is as important for the CoreValve ReValving technology as the first-ever procedure waseI|not only because it avoided open-heart surgery for these very frail patients, but also because these uneventful procedures were performed in a cath lab without the use of extracorporeal bypass, or cardiac assistance, or even rapid pacing. |
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