intrabdominal

English

Etymology

From intra- +‎ abdominal.

Adjective

intrabdominal (not comparable)

1. Rare form of intraabdominal.
   • 2015 July 25, Federico Coccolini et al., “The open abdomen, indications, management and definitive closure”, in World Journal of Emergency Surgery : WJES‎^[1], volume 10, →DOI:

     2 Synthetic mesh sutured to the fascial edges to maintain the traction and prevent the fascial retraction with a plastic sheet posed under in direct contact with the intrabdominal content to protect the bowel Another implementation of the system was introduced by the AB-Thera (KCI, San Antonio, TX) with the use of spider-like sponge that allow a better fluid drainage and a better wound contraction and with a reported primary fascia closure rate of 89 % [ 53, 54 ].

Usage notes

The forms intra-abdominal and intraabdominal are preferred by many since this form is viewed as accidentally collapsing the adjacent a letters. Most dictionaries do not have this form.

Further reading

• intrabdominal, intraabdominal at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.