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What does extracapsular mean?

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Adjective
  1. (anatomy) Situated outside a capsule, especially outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
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Extracapsular body very voluminous, foamy, with innumerable alveoles in the jelly, and many xanthell between them.
Many times if the rhexis is incomplete, one might have to convert to an extracapsular cataract extraction to prevent a posterior capsular rupture or nucleus drop.
An extracapsular arterial ring is formed by branches of the medial and lateral circumflex arteries, contributing to the metaphyseal blood supply.
The extracapsular jelly or the calymma is commonly thick, and envelops the greater part or the whole body.
The extracapsular calymma is an alveolated sphere, the diameter of which is six to eight times that of the capsule.
The intrahepatic hematoma was contiguous with subcapsular and extracapsular hematomas over the right lobe.

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