External radiation therapy
External radiation therapy: Radiation therapy in which the source of radiation is a machine outside the body.
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- Extracellular
Extracellular: Outside a cell. As opposed to intracellular, meaning within a cell.
- Extracolonic
Extracolonic: Outside the colon. An hereditary colon cancer syndrome may also predispose to extracolonic malignancies.
- Extracorporeal
Extracorporeal: Outside the body, in the anatomic sense. As in extracorporeal circulation, extracorporeal dialysis, and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. From extra- + corpus, meaning body.
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: (ECMO) A life support system that circulates the blood through an oxygenating system. ECMO is like a heart-lung machine that takes over the work of the heart and lungs during open heart surgery. ECMO may be used, for example, to treat ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome), lethal smoke inhalation injury, or irreversible […]
- Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: A technique for shattering a kidney stone or gallstone with a shock wave that is produced outside the body. Anesthesia may be necessary to control the pain, depending on the size and density of the stone and on the energy of the shock wave needed to break