intracranial

English

Etymology

From intra- +‎ cranial.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪniəl

Adjective

intracranial (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the brain or inside of the head; within the cranium.
   • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease: The Great Morbidity of the 21st Century”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 2014-02-03, page 200:

     Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.

   • 2024 December 10, Tom Phillips, Tiago Rogero, “Brazilian president in intensive care after emergency brain surgery”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The doctors attributed the intracranial haemorrhage to a domestic accident to a fall Lula had in October while taking a shower in the Alvorada Palace, the official presidential residence in Brasília.

Derived terms

• intracranially
• intracranial pressure

Translations

pertaining to the inside of skull

• Catalan: intracranial (ca)
• Czech: nitrolební (cs), intrakraniální (cs)
• Finnish: kallonsisäinen
• Italian: endocranico (it), intracranico
• Lombard: intracranich
• Polish: wewnątrzczaszkowy (pl), śródczaszkowy (pl)
• Portuguese: intracraniano (pt)
• Romanian: intracranial
• Russian: внутричерепной (ru) (vnutričerepnoj), интракраниа́льный (ru) (intrakraniálʹnyj)