What Is Intracranial Process?

Intracranial: Within the cranium, the bony dome that houses and protects the brain. An intracranial hemorrhage is bleeding within the cranium due, for example, to a stroke or leakage of blood from an aneurysm in the brain.

What do intracranial means?

: existing or occurring within the cranium also : affecting or involving intracranial structures.

Does intracranial mean brain?

Intracranial means inside the skull and hypertension means high fluid pressure. Intracranial hypertension means that the pressure of the fluid that surrounds the brain (cerebrospinal fluid or CSF) is too high.