Usually means: Outside the capsule of organs.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word extracapsular:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. extracapsular: Wiktionary
  2. extracapsular: Infoplease Dictionary
  3. extracapsular: Dictionary.com
  4. Extracapsular: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. extracapsular: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Extracapsular: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. extracapsular: FreeDictionary.org
  8. extracapsular: Wordnik
  9. Extracapsular: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. extracapsular: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. extracapsular: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extracapsular)

▸ adjective:  (anatomy) Situated outside a capsule, especially outside the capsular ligament of a joint.

Similar:
extraarticular, paracapsular, pericapsular, supracapsular, subcapsular, extraligamentous, extra-articular, intracapsular, extrabursal, extracorpuscular, more...

Opposite:
intracapsular, within capsule

Types:
intramuscular, subcutaneous, intravenous, intracardiac, intraarterial, intraosseous, more...

Phrases:
extracapsular surgery, extracapsular fracture, extracapsular ankylosis, more...

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Similar:
extraarticular, paracapsular, pericapsular, supracapsular, subcapsular, extraligamentous, extra-articular, intracapsular, extrabursal, extracorpuscular, more...

Opposite:
intracapsular, within capsule

Types:
intramuscular, subcutaneous, intravenous, intracardiac, intraarterial, intraosseous, more...

Phrases:
extracapsular surgery, extracapsular fracture, extracapsular ankylosis, more...



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