intracranial pressure
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Noun[edit]
intracranial pressure (countable and uncountable, plural intracranial pressures)
- (physiology) The pressure inside the skull, and thus in the brain tissue and cerebrospinal fluid.
- Synonym: (abbreviation) ICP
- 2012, H. Penzholz, M. Brock, J. Hamer, Brain Hypoxia: Pain, →ISBN, page 42:
- As artificial hyperventilation is advocated in the treatment of raised intracranial pressure, it must be questioned where to set the limit beyond which hypocapnically induced cerebral tissue hypoxia may occur.
Translations[edit]
pressure