intramural

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The adjective intramural (from the Latin intra “inside, inside”, and murus “wall”) is a technical term in anatomy and pathology and means “located in the organ wall”. The identification as intramural specifies the position of a structure or a process ( nerve , inflammation , tumor ) within the organ tissue, in contrast to the cavity that is enclosed by the organ ( extramural : lying outside the wall of the organ cavity).

In addition to this medical meaning, intramural is also used in other contexts ( see below ).

Examples

  • The urethra runs after its entry into the urinary bladder a short distance within the bladder wall, that is intramural. One speaks of the intramural location in the bladder wall.
  • The myenteric plexus is part of the intramural nervous system ( enteric nervous system )
  • Crohn's disease is a chronic, recurrent intramural inflammation.
  • An intramural myoma can lead to massively increased or prolonged menstrual bleeding .
  • In an intramural pregnancy, the fruit nests in the intramural section of the fallopian tube . This rare form of deficiency is often life-threatening for the mother.

Other meanings

  • Archaeological means intramural “lying within the wall”.
  • In Germany, the public sector in health care is sometimes referred to as intramural (“within the hospital walls”).
  • The area of hospitals is considered intramural in Austria , in contrast to the extramural area of resident care .
  • Health care in prisons is called intramural medicine in Switzerland .
    Even sex therapists describe their activities within prison walls as intramural treatment.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BP Saunders et al. a .: Balloon dilation of ileocolic stenoses in Crohn's disease. In: Endosk today. Volume 18, 2005, pp. 18-22.
  2. ↑ Springer Large Dictionary Medicine. 2004, ISBN 3-540-21352-X , pp. ??.
  3. ↑ S. amount Gitsch1 G., A. Hasenburg: A 33-year-old Gravida II / I Para 11 in the SSW with intramural pregnancy n in Z. secondary cesarean section.. In: Obstetrics, gynecology. Volume 65, No. 2, Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 2005, pp. 199–202, here p. ?? ( doi : 10.1055 / s-2005-837492 ).
  4. ↑ medicforce.com: intramural ( Memento from February 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Federal Ministry of Health : The Health Reform 2005. ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmgfj.gv.at
  6. ↑ Thomas Hillenkamp , Brigitte Tag : Research focus on health: Intramural medicine. Project of the University of Zurich, 2009, accessed on November 4, 2014 (PDF; 40 kB; 2 pages).