intracranial pressure

English

Noun

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.

Translations

pressure

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顱內壓／颅内压 (zh) (lúnèiyā), 顱壓／颅压 (lúyā)

• Finnish: aivopaine
• German: Intrakranieller Druck m, Hirndruck m
• Japanese: 頭蓋内圧 (ずがいないあつ, zugainaiatsu)

See also

• intracranial hypertension
• pseudotumor cerebri
• blood pressure