extracorporeal

English

Etymology

From extra- +‎ corporeal.

Adjective

extracorporeal (not comparable)

1. Outside the body.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "However, I have received two messages to-night, and I can only ascribe to them an extra-corporeal origin."

Derived terms

• extracorporeally
• extracorporeal shockwave therapy

Translations

outside the body

Chinese: Mandarin: 體外的 / 体外的 (tǐwài de) Czech: mimotělní, extrakorporální Japanese: 体外式 (たいがいしき, taigaishiki) Kazakh: ағзадан тыс (ağzadan tys) Russian: экстракорпоральный (ru) (ekstrakorporalʹnyj) Ukrainian: екстракорпора́льний (ekstrakorporálʹnyj)

Further reading

• “extracorporeal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.