intracranial pressure
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English
Noun
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
pressure