intracranial pressure

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intracranial pressure (countable and uncountable, plural intracranial pressures)

  1. (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.

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