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Where does “extracorporeal” come from?

Extracorporeal comes from Latin extra meaning "outside" combined with corpus meaning "body," literally describing something existing or occurring outside the physical body.

extracorporeal (English): Outside the body

Definitions

  1. Outside the body

Ancestry of “extracorporeal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishextraBeyond what is due, usual, expected, or...
2EnglishextraordinaryNot ordinary; exceptional; unusual; Remarkably...
3Latinextraordinārius—
4Latinōrdinem—
5Middle Low Germanorden—
6Latinōrdināre—
7Latinōrdō—
8Proto-Italicored(h)-to arrange

Words derived from “extracorporeal”

  • extracorporeally
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