How to Use intracranial in a Sentence

intracranial

adjective
  • Traumas such as a fall or a car accident can cause an intracranial hematoma.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Doctors put him in a coma to prevent brain swelling from an intracranial bleed.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The first was the presence of an intracranial joint joining the two portions of the skull.
    — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2022
  • These changes point to an increase in intracranial pressure while in orbit.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Kayden’s injuries include fractures to his pelvis and neck, and intracranial bleeding.
    — Washington Post, 13 June 2018
  • She was transported to a hospital, where she was found to have an intracranial bleed and multiple skull fractures.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Kayden's injuries include fractures to his pelvis and cervical spine, as well as intracranial bleeding.
    — Elizabeth Zwirz, Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • However, these types of intracranial electrodes are often placed on the brains of epilepsy patients in order to locate the sites of their seizures.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Ground-level falls might seem benign, but are the most common cause of traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in older adults.
    — Adaira Landry, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • People with a history of intracranial hemorrhage or with active bleeding, such as a peptic ulcer, should not take them.
    — Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 20 Sep. 2024
  • According to Mayo Clinic, a brain bleed, or an intracranial hematoma, is a collection of blood within the skull.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Four patients had intracranial hemorrhages, or bleeding between the brain tissue and skull or within the brain itself, the letter said.
    — Chuck Lindell, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2020
  • That’s definitely not on the official list of symptoms for intracranial teratomas.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The boy was hospitalized with a concussion, an intracranial bleed, a skull fracture, a broken wrist, and a fractured femur.
    — Cierra Morgan march 4, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Although the volume of cerebrospinal fluid increases in certain areas, the brain itself doesn’t swell in size, which would be a cause of intracranial pressure.
    — Mark Strauss, National Geographic, 30 Nov. 2016
  • Weeks later he was hospitalized with a severe headache, the result of intracranial bleeding that became life-threatening.
    — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The subjects had already been fitted with intracranial electrodes as part of their preparation for surgical epilepsy treatment.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 9 Mar. 2026
  • In the ancient world, would-be surgeons sometimes used primitive drills or saws on people, and even a child, with brain traumas, scurvy or intracranial infection, sometimes killing them.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Kreiman and his colleagues gathered their data via intracranial recordings, where electrodes are placed inside the skull that pick up the electrical activity of neurons.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
  • In Wuhan, a front-line doctor went to his isolated room to avoid possibly infecting his family and had an intracranial hemorrhage.
    — cleveland, 29 Mar. 2020
  • The surgery was performed as early as the Neolithic era and was thought to relieve a variety of ailments, from high fever, to convulsions, to intracranial pressure.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The cause of death was intracranial hemorrhage, the coroner told Fox News Digital Wednesday.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 10 May 2024
  • But the intracranial blood supply system, lower jaw, and inner ear structure resembled Neanderthals.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But as patients worsen, physicians struggle over whether to up the anticoagulant dose, which boosts the risk of gastrointestinal and intracranial bleeding.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Rutishauser and his team worked with 20 patients already undergoing intracranial recording of their brain activity for surgery to treat epilepsy.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The rare infections, called intracranial abscess, are caused when bacteria, like Streptococcus intermedius, reach the brain.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • She was also diagnosed with intracranial hypertension, a type of brain condition that causes headaches, dizziness, and light and sound sensitivity, in her teens.
    — Julia Ries, SELF, 16 Dec. 2024
  • American states typically demand evidence that the whole brain has stopped working, for example a lack of intracranial blood flow, but there is no national protocol.
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The scientists were surprised to find that intracranial pressure actually dropped during the periods of zero gravity.
    — Mark Strauss, National Geographic, 30 Nov. 2016
  • Patients who had a dose reduction within the first 16 weeks of starting saw no difference in median progression-free survival or intracranial response rates.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 7 June 2024

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