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extracavernous

extracavernous adjective: outside the corpus cavernosum.

Adjective

extracavernous (not comparable)

  1. Outside the corpus cavernosum
    • A hard tumor, with encasement of the internal carotid artery (ICA), received a debulking and partial removal, in the extracavernous portion (Simpson Grade IV).2015 June 29, Carlos Eduardo da Silva, Paulo Eduardo Peixoto de Freitas, “Large and giant skull base meningiomas: The role of radical surgical removal”, in Surgical Neurology International, volume 6...

Origin of extracavernous

From extra- + cavernous.

Words that rhyme with extracavernous

Questions about extracavernous

What does extracavernous mean?
Extracavernous means outside the corpus cavernosum.
What part of speech is extracavernous?
Extracavernous is an adjective.

Words near extracavernous in the dictionary

  1. extracardiac
  2. extracardial
  3. extracarpal
  4. extracatalytic
  5. extracaveolar
  6. extracavernous
  7. extracavitary
  8. extracellular
  9. extracellular matrices
  10. extracellular matrix
  11. extracellularly

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