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extracorporeal

extracorporeal

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Happening outside the body during medical treatment
  • adjective
  • /ˌɛkstrəˈkɔːrpərɪəl/
  • Specialized
: extracorpóreo
  • Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was used for 5 patients with respiratory or cardiovascular failure; 3 survived.
  • extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
  • extracorporeal membrane

We're now able to recover organs and place them to an extracorporeal apparatus and do a test transplant in advance.

Examples

  • The patient was placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation postoperatively until day of life 6 but was not extubated until day of life 11.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Good supportive intensive care and advanced life support, including the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, are possible explanations.

    Academic text (2012)
  • It's an example of what's called an extracorporeal blood treatment, meaning that blood extra means outside, corporeal means body.

  • We're now able to recover organs and place them to an extracorporeal apparatus and do a test transplant in advance.

  • So ECMO is extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

  • Those are artificial limbs, say implants, the artificial heart, extracorporeal means outside the body, artificial kidney.

  • These sports call on waves, winds, and other extracorporeal energies drawn from the natural elements and require a new mode of control based on the treatment of relevant data and the piloting of machines absent any independent steering aid.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Across the whole CDSR, there was only one intervention with large beneficial effects on mortality and no major concerns about the quality of the evidence (for a trial on extracorporeal oxygenation for severe respiratory failure in newborns).

    Blog text (19)
  • Their illnesses were characterized by severe respiratory distress associated with pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum; 2 of them required mechanical ventilation, and 1 required extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The patient was quickly placed on extracorporeal life support to stabilize their condition.

Surface Forms

extracorporeal positive

Morphology

extracorporeal = corporeal (transparent) = extra + corporeal

The meaning is directly built from 'extra' (outside/beyond) + 'corporeal' (bodily), yielding 'outside the body'.

Etymology

The word extracorporeal comes from extra- meaning 'outside' and the same root as corpse, which means 'body'. So extracorporeal describes something that happens or is located 'outside the body'.