Definition of "extracorporeal" [extracorporeal]

• Situated or occurring outside the body. (adjective)

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• "The Company has developed the world's first and only proprietary platform, FDA-cleared and CE-Marked TandemHeart®-which provides a short-term extracorporeal circulatory support system for both cardiologists and cardiac surgeons."
• "These processes, including the use of the heart-lung machine and renal dialysis, require the blood to be circulated through tubing outside the body and are hence known as extracorporeal circulation (EC) and have provided critical life support for millions of patients."
• "In Australia and New Zealand, doctors used a treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, in which they extracted blood from each patient and passed it through a machine that adds oxygen."