intra-

intra-, prefix
  (ɪntrə)
  repr. L. intrā ‘on the inside, within’, used in numerous recent formations, chiefly adjectival. This use of intra- does not occur in classical L., and only a few examples appear in late and med.L. But it is largely used in modern times, esp. in biological terms, where it is often naturally opposed to extra-. It is sometimes confused with inter-.
  1. In adjectives (properly, and most frequently, of Latin origin) in which it stands in prepositional relation to the n. implied in the second element.
  intra-abˈdominal, situated or occurring within the abdomen; intra-acinous (-ˈæsɪnəs), occurring within an acinus or racemose gland; intra-alˈveolar, occurring within the alveoli or air-cells of the lungs; intra-amniˈotic, taking place, situated, or administered within the amnion; so intra-amniˈotically adv., within the amnion; intra-arˈterial, occurring within an artery; also, administered into an artery; intra-arˈterially adv., (by injection) into an artery; intra-arˈticular, situated within or passing into a joint of the body; intrabranchial (-ˈbræŋkɪəl), situated within the branchiæ or gills; intrabronchial (-ˈbrɒŋkɪəl), occurring within the bronchi; intraˈbuccal [L. bucca cheek], situated within or on the inside of the cheek: intracaˈlicular, situated within the calicle of a polyp; intracaˈnonical, relating to what is included in the canon of Scripture; intracaˈpillary, existing within a blood capillary; intraˈcapsular, situated or occurring within a capsule, or within the capsular ligament of a joint; intraˈcardiac, -ˈcardial [Gr. καρδία heart], situated or occurring within the heart (= endocardial a); intraˈcardially adv., into the heart; intraˈcarpellary Bot., situated within a carpel; also (erron.) between or among carpels (properly intercarpellary); intracartilaginous (-ˈædʒɪnəs), situated or occurring within the substance of cartilage; intraˈcavital, occurring within the cavities, e.g. of the stem of a plant; intraˈcellular Biol., situated or occurring within the substance of a cell (as digestion in Protozoa); hence intraˈcellularly adv. intracephalic (-sɪˈfælɪk) [Gr. κεϕαλή head], situated or occurring within the head; intraˈcerebral, situated or occurring within the cerebrum or brain (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1887); intraˈcerebrally adv., in or into the cerebrum; intraciˈsternal, occurring within or (of an injection) administered into a cistern of the body, esp. one in the brain; hence intraciˈsternally adv.; intracloacal (-kləʊˈeɪkəl), situtated within the cloaca; intracœlomic (-siːˈlɒmɪk), situated within the cœlome; intraˈcoastal, situated close to the coast; intracontiˈnental, situated within, or in the interior of, a continent; intraˈcoronal Dentistry, placed or performed within the crown of a tooth; hence intraˈcoronally adv.; intracorˈporeal, situated or occurring within the body; intracorˈpuscular, occurring within corpuscles (e.g. those of the blood); intraˈcortical, situated or occurring within the cortex of the brain; intraˈcosmical, existing within the cosmos or universe; intraˈcrustal Geol., situated within the earth's crust; intraˈcrystalline Min., occurring within a crystal; intraˈcultural, occurring within a culture; hence intraˈculturally adv.; intracuˈtaneous = intradermal (below); hence intracuˈtaneously adv.; intracystic (-ˈsɪstɪk), occurring within a cyst; intracytoˈplasmic, situated or occurring within the cytoplasm of a cell; intra-departˈmental, done or occurring within a department; intraˈdermal, -ˈdermic, situated or applied within the skin; hence intraˈdermally adv.; intradiˈvisional, done within a division; intraˈductal, situated or applied within a duct (of a breast); intraˈdural, situated or performed within the dura mater; hence intraˈdurally; intra-ecclesiˈastical, existing or occurring within a church; intraepiˈdermal, -epiˈdermic, situated or occurring within the epidermis; intra-epiˈthelial, situated within the substance of the epithelium; intra-Euroˈpean, occurring or carried on within Europe; intra-experiˈential, within experience; intrafaˈscicular Bot., situated within a vascular bundle; intraforˈmational Geol., formed or occurring within a geological formation; intraˈfusal [L. fusus spindle], situated or occurring within a muscle spindle; intraˈgastric, applied, existing, or situated within the stomach; hence intraˈgastrically adv., into the stomach; intrageˈneric, occurring or existing within a genus or between individuals of a single genus; intraˈgenic [genic a.], occurring within a gene; intraˈglacial = englacial a.; also, lying upon or within, or being, the terrain formerly occupied by a glacier or ice-sheet; intraˈglandular, existing or carried out within a gland; intragluˈteal, administered into the gluteal muscles; intragovernˈmental, occurring within the institutions or branches of a government; intraˈgyral (-ˈdʒaɪərəl), situated within a gyrus or convolution of the brain; intraheˈpatic [Gr. ἧπαρ liver], situated or occurring within the substance of the liver; intra-imˈperial, carried on within the (British) Empire; intraˈlamellar, situated within the lamellæ, e.g. of the ‘gills’ of a fungus; intralaryngeal (-ləˈrɪndʒiːəl), situated or performed within the larynx; hence intralaˈryngeally adv. intralenˈticular Ophthalm., situated within the lens of the eye; intraligaˈmentous, occurring within the substance of a ligament; intra-ˈlingual, (a) Med., situated or occurring in the substance of the tongue (New Syd. Soc. Lex. Med. 1888); (b) of communication, etc.: within a given language; within the bounds of language; intra-linˈguistic = intra-lingual (b); intraˈlocular, situated within the loculi or chambers of some structure; intraˈlogical, within the boundaries of logic. intraˈluminal, existing within a lumen, esp. that of the intestine; intraˈmammary, existing or applied within a breast; intramanˈdibular, situated within the mandible; intraˈmarginal, situated on the inner side of the margin, e.g. of a leaf; intraˈmatrical Bot., situated or growing within a matrix, as a parasitic plant; hence intraˈmatrically adv. intraˈmedullary [see medulla], situated within the substance of the spinal cord, or of the medulla oblongata (Syd. Soc. Lex.); intraˈmembranous, ‘within the substance of a membrane, or enclosed by membrane’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.); intrameningeal (-miːˈnɪndʒiːəl), situated or occurring within the investing membranes of the brain; intra-ˈmental, occurring within the mind; so intra-menˈtality; intramerˈcurial, -ian Astron., situated within the orbit of Mercury; intrametroˈpolitan, situated within the metropolitan boundary; intraˈmontane, situated within a mountain; intramorˈphemic, occurring or existing within a morpheme; intraˈmuscular, situated or taking place within the substance of a muscle; also, administered into a muscle; hence intraˈmuscularly adv., (by injection) into a muscle; intraˈnasal, situated or occurring within the nose; intraˈnasally adv., through, in, or into the nose; intraˈnatal, taking place at the time of birth; intraˈnational, occurring or carried on within a nation-state; intraˈneural, situated or occurring within a nerve; intraˈnuclear, situated within the nucleus of a cell; intranucleolar (-njuːklɪˈəʊlə(r)), (-njuːˈkliːələ(r)), situated or occurring within a nucleolus; intra-ˈoral [L. ōs, ōr- mouth], situated within the mouth; intra-ˈorbital, situated or occurring within the orbit of the eye; intra-orˈganic, -orgaˈnismal, -orgaˈnismic, within an organism; intra-ˈosseous [L. os, oss- bone], situated within the substance of a bone; also intra-ˈosteal [Gr. ὀστέον bone], in same sense; intra-ˈoval [L. ōvum egg], taking place within the egg; intra-oˈvarian, contained or remaining in the ovary; intraparaˈcentral, situated within the paracentral convolution of the brain; intraparaˈsitic, existing in the substance of a parasitic organism; intrapaˈrochial, existing or occurring within a parish; intraˈpelvic, situated or occurring within the pelvis; intraperiˈcardiac, -al, situated within the pericardium; intraperitoˈneal, situated or taking place within the cavity of the peritoneum; hence intraperitoˈneally adv.; intra-ˈpersonal, occurring inside a person's mind or character; intraphiloˈsophic, that is within the limits of philosophy; intraˈplantar [L. planta sole of the foot], situated on the inner side of the sole of the foot; intraˈpleural, situated within the pleural cavity; intraˈpolar, situated within, i.e. between, the poles, e.g. of a galvanic battery (more properly interpolar); intraprotoˈplasmic, situated or occurring within the substance of protoplasm; intra-ˈpsychic, -ˈpsychical, occurring or existing within the psyche; intraˈpulmonary [L. pulmōn-es lungs], situated or taking place within the lungs; intrapulˈmonic = intrapulmonary; intraˈracial, within, or occurring within, a race; intraˈrectal, situated within the rectum; intraˈregional, occurring within a region; intraˈretinal, situated within the substance of the retina; intrasegˈmental Zool. and Linguistics, occurring within a ‘segment’; intraˈseminal Bot., occurring or existing within a seed; intraˈsemital, situated within a semita of an echinoderm; intraˈserous, existing or taking place within the serum of the blood; intrasoˈmatic [Gr. σῶµα body], situated or occurring within the body; intraˈspinal, situated or occurring within the spinal column or spinal cord; intraˈspinally adv., within the spinal cord; intraˈstromal, situated within the stroma or connective tissue of an organ or structure; intra-subˈjective, of a reaction, response, etc., which occurs within a person; intraˈtarsal, situated on the inner side of the tarsus; intraterriˈtorial, situated or contained within a territory; intrateˈsticular, existing or carried out within, or administered into, a testicle; hence ˌintrateˈsticularly adv.; intraˈthecal, (a) contained or enclosed in the theca (e.g. of a polyp), (b) going into or occurring within the spinal theca; hence intraˈthecally adv.; intrathoˈracic, situated or occurring within the thorax; intraˈtracheal, within the trachea or windpipe; intraˈtracheally adv., within the trachea; intraˈtubal, intraˈtubular, contained or occurring within a tube or tubule, esp. of the animal body; intra-ˈtypical, occurring within one type; intra-umˈbilical, situated within the umbilicus; intra-ˈurban [L. urbs city], carried on within a city; intra-uˈrethral, situated within the urethra; intravaˈginal, (a) situated within the vagina. (b) Bot., within the sheath of a leaf; intraˈvalvular, situated within or between valves (more properly intervalvular). intravaˈrietal, occurring or existing within a variety (variety 6 b), or between individuals of the same variety; intraveˈhicular, of, pertaining to, or used within a space vehicle; intraˈverbal, within a word; intraˈvertebral, situated within a vertebra; hence intraˈvertebrally adv. intraˈvesical [L. vēsīca bladder], situated or occurring within the urinary bladder or the gall-bladder; intraviˈtelline [L. vitellus yolk], occurring within the yolk of an egg; intraxylary (-ˈzaɪlərɪ) Bot., situated within the xylem or woody tissue, as the soft bast in the Combretaceæ.

1887 Syd. Soc. Lex., *Intra-abdominal. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 975 The cæcum in an adult may be in any of its successive intra-abdominal positions.

1879 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. II. 245 The *intra-acinous collections of them correspond to the structure of medullary cancer.

1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2) 307 Cases in which the pulmonary consolidation is mainly due to a catarrhal *intra-alveolar growth.

1960 Biol. Abstr. XXXV. 1865/2 (heading) The lipids in the coating layer of the epidermis during the *intra-amniotic life. 1973 Nature 26 Jan. 280/1 The observed periodicity in response to the intra-amniotic injection of PGF2α must..be related to endocrine and/or other rhythmic metabolic changes.

1961 Lancet 5 Aug. 279/1 If the endocrine condition of one uterine horn is altered experimentally (..by injecting progesterone *intra-amniotically into one horn) the two horns deliver at different times. 1973 Nature 26 Jan. 280/1 Intra-amniotically injected PGF2α appears to be slowly transferred from the amniotic compartment.

1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 389 Signs..of *intra-arterial tension. 1946 Ibid. 17 Aug. 238/1 Buchtal and Kahlson have pointed out that the close intra-arterial injection of 5 µgm. acetylcholine after introduction of adenosine triphosphate increases the intensity and duration of the mechanical response of muscle. 1962 Lancet 29 Dec. 1338/1 Substances given by intra-arterial infusion.

1938 Coll. Papers Mayo Clinic XXIX. 533 Histamine phosphate..and acetyl β-methylcholine..were injected *intra-arterially. 1964 W. G. Smith Allergy & Tissue Metabolism ii. 26 Doses of antigen given intra-arterially or intravenously.

1890 Billings Med. Dict. I. 711/1 *Intra-articular. 1908 Practitioner Apr. 516 There was much intra-articular effusion into both knee-joints. 1961 Lancet 29 July 266/2 Intra-articular cartilage is avascular.

1878 Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 321 The water is streaming..into the branchial plates or the *intrabranchial cavity.

1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 31 Cases of *intrabronchial hæmorrhage.

1899 Rendel Harris in Contemp. Rev. Dec. 810 We will leave on one side such cases as are *intra-canonical.

1879 Jrnl. Physiol. II. 336 The relation which exists between the *intracapillary pressure and the degree of dilation of these delicate tubes. 1961 Lancet 16 Sept. 664/2 A higher intracapillary hydrostatic pressure is presumably related to a greater leakage of protein and fluid.

1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 324 Of the 8 cases of fracture of the cervix femoris, six occurred in females, and were *intracapsular.

1887 Syd. Soc. Lex., *Intracardiac. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 389 It [the first heart-sound] is intracardiac and not muscular.

1917 Jrnl. Immunol. II. 141 Römer..injected guinea pigs sensitized to horse serum *intracardially with diphtheria antitoxin. 1958 Immunology I. 104 Injections were made intracardially.

1876 tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. (ed. 6) 160 The *intra-cardial nerve-centres.

1874 R. Brown Man. Bot. Gloss., *Intracarpellary, among or interior to the carpels.

1887 Syd. Soc. Lex., *Intracartilaginous. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 119 So far the description refers to intra-cartilaginous ossification.

1876 tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 154 *Intra-cellular. 1883 S. Wainwright Sci. Sophisms vii. 109 An enclosed nucleus with surrounding intracellular matrix or matter. 1887 Amer. Naturalist XXI. 419 Brought into harmony with the phenomena of intra⁓cellular digestion.

1881 E. R. Lankester in Jrnl. Microsc. Sc. Jan. 122 In many Cœlentera the *intra-cellularly digestive cells are limited in number and position. 1896 Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 519 Although most enzymes are discharged outwards, that is, are secreted, and act extracellularly, some of them effect their fermentative action intra⁓cellularly.

1881 G. Sigerson tr. Charcot's Lect. Dis. Nervous System II. 281 An *intra-cerebral focus of hæmorrhage. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. iii. 100 He found very regularly an immediate deflection of the galvanometer, indicating an abrupt alteration of the intra⁓cerebral temperature. 1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxxiii. 530 They spread slowly within the sheaths, and death is due to intracerebral extension.

1910 Jrnl. Exper. Med. XII. 253 Inoculated *intracerebrally with spinal cord. 1937 Jrnl. Path. & Bacteriol. XLIV. 418 The strain of fowl pest virus..was only very slightly pathogenic for mice when inoculated intraperitoneally or even intracerebrally. 1970 European Jrnl. Cancer VI. 173/1 Inbred Swiss/Ry-female mice were inoculated intracerebrally with Ehrlich carcinoma.

1932 Dorland & Miller Med. Dict. (ed. 16) 642/1 *Intracisternal, within a cistern, especially the cisterna magna. 1958 Technology Jan. 384/3 By intracisternal injection nor-morphine was rather more active than morphine. 1964 G. H. Haggis et al. Introd. Molecular Biol. v. 141 One hour after the first meal following starvation..the endoplasmic reticular cavities of the basal zone..are distended and contain small granules (intracisternal granules).

1934 Physiol. Abstr. XIX. 481 Histamine.., acetylcholine, and padutin have no influence upon the blood pressure when injected *intracisternally. 1971 Nature 5 Mar. 54/1 Intracisternally injected radioactive noradrenaline.

1928 Daily Tel. 26 June 10/6 Houston['s]..hinterland is shortly to be widened by the construction of the *intra-coastal canal from New Orleans. 1964 Times Rev. Industry Mar. 86/1 Between Jacksonville and Palatka..there is a navigable channel in the St. Johns River forming part of the Atlantic Intracoastal waterways. 1972 Countryman Winter 41 Fifty miles along the intracoastal canal to the Aransas wildlife sanctuary [in Texas].

1888 F. E. Beddard in Proc. Zool. Soc. (London) 20 Mar. 217 Annelid of Genus æolosoma..*Intracœlomic muscular bands.

1940 S. D. Tylman Theory & Pract. Crown & Bridge Prosthesis xix. 177 Retainers are classified into three types: The first is the *intracoronal, or inlays... As the name indicates, the prepared cavity and its cast retainer lie largely within the body of the coronal portion of the tooth. 1963 C. R. Cowell et al. Inlays, Crowns & Bridges ii. 4 A gold inlay is an intracoronal restoration for a vital tooth.

Ibid. vi. 60 Tooth substance may have been lost to such an extent that a restoration cannot be retained *intracoronally.

1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. i. 4 Each variety or species of the *intra-corporeal plasmodium has its special and more or less definite life-span of twenty-four hours.

1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 724 The *intra-corpuscular amœboid form, to which they gave the name plasmodium.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xix. 128 The normal forward irradiation of *intra-cortical excitement through association-paths is checked. 1970 Jrnl. Physiol. CCX. 57P (heading) Relation of movements induced by intracortical stimulation to receptive fields of points in the perirolandic and parietal cortex of the monkey.

1865 Grote Plato I. i. 58 He did not proclaim his Nous to be..an *intra-cosmical..instinct.

1933 *Intracrustal [see bysmalithic a.].

1921 Sci. Papers U.S. Bureau of Standards XVI. 215 The fracture of normal material is, in general, *intra⁓crystalline; that is, it consists of a break across the grains rather than of a separation between them. 1955 Soil Sci. LXXX. 425 The intracrystalline swelling of montmorillonite. 1973 Nature 3 Aug. 277/1 The increase in intra⁓crystalline slip..may lead to the elongation of the recrystallized grains.

1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory (1938) xiii. 237 As soon as functionalism is reduced to what it is—a worthy programme for ascertaining what *intracultural bonds may exist—the neglect of other methods appears as solely a matter of personal preference. 1956 Garvin & Mathiot in J. A. Fishman Readings Social. of Lang. (1968) 366 In intra-cultural terms, different segments of a speech community can be compared as to the degree to which the standard language has penetrated them, just as different subcultures of the same culture can be compared in terms of different degrees of penetration by urban elements.

1956 Lenneberg & Roberts Language of Experience 4 Not all hypotheses can be verified *intra-culturally. 1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVII. 13 The study of values both intraculturally and cross⁓culturally has a long, and..distinguished history.

1885 M. Hay tr. H. von Ziemssen's Handbk. Gen. Therapeutics II. 391 We may characterise all such procedures, in contradistinction to the epidermic method, as the endermic or *intracutaneous administration of remedies. 1905 Hyde & Montgomery Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin (ed. 7) 96 Hypodermatic and intracutaneous injections. 1956 D. M. Pillsbury et al. Dermatol. xv. 139 Scratch or intracutaneous tests are routinely employed to detect the presence of skin-sensitizing antibodies.

1925 Jrnl. Immunol. X. 729, 0·1 cc. was the amount *intracutaneously injected in each case. 1927 Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. XXV. 97 An injection..was given intracutaneously. 1961 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 29 July 279/2 Alum-precipitated toxoids were injected intracutaneously.

1878 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 101 An *intra-cystic growth may project from it as a fungus.

1916 Jrnl. R. Microsc. Soc. 307 The chromatic margin of the undulating membrane represents an *intracytoplasmic posteriorly-directed flagellum. 1971 Biol. Abstr. LII. 2029/1 In other organs..secretory granules may undergo intracytoplasmic lysis without destruction of their limiting membrane.

1961 P. Fleming Bayonets to Lhasa xxiii. 291 The fruits of *intradepartmental research. 1967 A. Battersby Network Analysis (ed. 2) iii. 42 The single activity..might well be a summary of an intra-departmental arrow diagram.

1900 Dorland Med. Dict. 327/2 *Intradermal. 1946 Nature 31 Aug 311/2 The intradermal test [for tuberculosis] is conceded to be eminently satisfactory in cattle. 1964 W. G. Smith Allergy & Tissue Metabolism i. 8 A patient who developed a local reaction to an intradermal injection.

1926 Amer. Year Bk. 1925 951/1 The time required for the disappearance of *intradermally injected salt solution. 1937 Jrnl. Path. & Bacteriol. XLIV. 410 Four rhesus monkeys were inoculated intradermally on the inner side of the left thigh with 0·2 c.c. of a 20 per cent. suspension of mouse brain. 1962 Lancet 26 May 1107/2 Sarcoid tissue..was..inoculated intradermally into 4 patients with suspected sarcoidosis.

1888 Syd. Soc. Lex. III, *Intradermic. 1966 Amer. Jrnl. Vet. Res. XXVII. 541/1 The cervical region of cattle is the most responsive site for applying intradermic tuberculin tests.

1873 Daily News 11 Aug.,. *Intradivisional sham fights are more interesting and instructive than fights in which one division is pitted against another.

1953 L. C. de Leborgne tr. R. A. Leborgne's Breast in Roent. Diagn. i. 14 When contrast mammography shows *intraductal lesions..we collect the liquid that has been injected, by softly expressing the breast (intraductal rinse). 1961 Lancet 29 July 241/2 Prolactin activity was detected and assayed semiquantitatively by the localised lactogenic response of the mammary gland of the pseudo-pregnant rabbit to intraductal injections. 1971 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. CX. 505/1 In our study of 20 intraductal papillomas of the breast, the similarity of these lesions to the papillary hidradenoma of the vulva was striking.

1890 Billings Med. Dict. I. 711/1 *Intradural. 1901 J. Collins in Hektoen & Riesman Text-bk. Path. xi. 618 Intradural tumors arise either from the inner surface of the dura or the pia. 1950 Jrnl. Neurosurg. VII. 1 Intradural granulomas are very rare and may be intramedullary or extramedullary. 1971 Ibid. XXXIV. 378/1 We therefore think that the intradural approach..is not more hazardous than the extradural approach.

1944 Brit. Jrnl. Ophthalm. XXVIII. 328 Some surgeons again approach the ganglion *intradurally. 1960 Cleveland Clinic Q. XXVII. 198 When this extradural treatment fails..we have injected corticosteroids intradurally by lumbar puncture. 1971 Jrnl. Neurosurg. XXXIV. 378/2 No facial palsy occurred in more than 1000 patients, most of whom were operated on intradurally.

1840 G. S. Faber Regen. 50 The Translation of a man, from his natural or extra-ecclesiastical state in fallen Adam, to an acquired or *intra-ecclesiastical State in Christ, the second Adam. 1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. 252 We all know that intramural and intra-ecclesiastical interment is now illegal.

1904 F. P. Foster Appleton's Med. Dict. 1161 *Intraepidermal. 1951 J. J. & W. D. Eller Tumors Skin (ed. 2) vii. 336 (heading) Intra-epidermal and superficial carcinomatous changes. 1971 Dermatologica CXLII. 29 (heading) On benign intra-epidermal follicular acanthomas.

1904 F. P. Foster Appleton's Med. Dict. 1161 *Intraepidermic. 1910 Practitioner June 871 An intra-epidermic abscess. 1949 Time 11 Apr. 39 They had launched the Intra-European Payments plan also as ‘the little ECA’. 1962 H. O. Beecheno Introd. Business Stud. i. 4 The European countries felt that there was no further danger of another intra-European War. 1967 Guardian 15 May 6/6 Intra-European bilateral contacts continue to proliferate benignly. 1973 Nature 16 Mar. 150/2 Designed for intra-European communication the satellite will handle telephone, telegram, telex and television channels.

1881 Jrnl. Microsc. Sc. Jan. 108 [This] may be spoken of as an *intraepithelial vesicle.

1895 W. James Meaning of Truth (1909) ii. 45 Mental images..are one phenomenal fact; the tigers are another; and their pointing to the tigers is a perfectly commonplace *intra-experiential relation. 1909 W. M. Urban Valuation vi. 188 For Ehrenfels the real test of the rationality of the desire is not an intra-experiential test.

1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 137/1 *Intrafascicular (fasciculus, a bundle), within a bundle. 1914 M. Drummond tr. Haberlandt's Physiol. Plant. Anat. ii. 97 So-called fascicular or intrafascicular cambium forms a strip which extends tangentially right across the bundle. 1917 Ann. Bot. XXXI. 45 The existence of this vestigal, intrafascicular cambium indicates that Monocotyledons have been derived from a dicotyledonous stock. 1960 W. B. R. Laidlaw Guide Brit. Hardwoods 228 Interfascicular, between bundles..(cp. intrafascicular—cambium inside a bundle).

1894 C. D. Walcott in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. V. 192 An *intra-formational conglomerate is one formed within a geologic formation of material derived from and deposited within that formation. 1938 Hatch & Rastall Petrol. Sedimentary Rocks (ed. 3) iv. 76 Remarkable beds of intraformational breccia and conglomerate are found in some limestone and dolomite formations. 1940 E. S. Hills Outl. Structural Geol. i. 15 When a slumped mass slides down on to undisturbed sediments it may later be covered by younger deposits. Severely disturbed beds will then be found between undisturbed strata, an arrangement that is known as intraformational contortion or corrugation. 1963 D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation x. 194 False unconformities and intraformational unconformities can often be explained by the effect of ‘creep’.

1894 C. S. Sherrington in Jrnl. Physiol. XVII. 240 Its own contained muscle-fibres, or as they may be termed the *intrafusal muscle-fibres, always however run parallel with the long axis of the spindle itself. 1905 J. S. Ferguson Normal Histol. ix. 136 The bundle of intrafusal muscle fibres is again surrounded by a delicate axial sheath of connective tissue. 1968 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xxiv. 12/2 A muscle spindle..contains a few short and very slender striated muscle cells; these are the intrafusal fibres which contrast with the main mass of extrafusal fibres. The intrafusal fibres receive motor nerve terminals. 1970 F. J. Schulte in U. Stave Physiol. Prenatal Period II. xxv. 805 In kittens, the intrafusal activity..seems to be less tonic than in adult cats.

1900 Dorland Med. Dict. 327/2 *Intra⁓gastric. 1903 G. Herschell Man. Intragastric Technique vii. 107 The intragastric needle-douche..may be described as the application of fine jets of fluid under considerable pressure to the interior of the stomach. 1926 J. A. Ryle Gastric Function i. i. 15 When the stomach is filled and the intragastric tension thereby raised, the tension..quickly falls again. 1972 Nature 21 Apr. 385/2 Contractions of the body of the stomach of an anaesthetized rat measured from pressure changes in an intragastric balloon.

1959 Proc. Amer. Assoc. Cancer Res. III. 63/2 (heading) Relationship of dose of *intragastrically administered methylcholanthrene to incidence of breast cancer in rats. 1971 Nature 16 Apr. 461/1 Propane sultone administered intragastrically at two dose levels gave rise chiefly to gliomas.

1947 Biol. Abstr. XXI. 2107/2 The role of *intra- and inter⁓generic hybridization in the breeding of cultivated plants. 1971 Nature 22 Oct. 526/1 They approach the limits of intrageneric relationship when compared with other fish taxa.

1937 Ibid. 30 Oct. 760/2 These are changes of ‘balance’, and rank with *intra-genic changes and position changes as one of the three effective means of variation. 1971 Ibid. 10 Dec. 337/1 One or more amino-acids have been deleted, probably during intragenic crossing over.

1895 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 4) 957 Nearly all transported debris of the glacier was confined at first to its lower part... It was *intraglacial, as now in Greenland. Ibid., The term englacial..is not here adopted because it is half Greek. Intraglacial accords with Latin usage. 1896 Amer. Geologist XVIII. 153 Intraglacial..is here used for drift deposited in the field occupied by the ice, in contradistinction to extraglacial drift which has come to rest on ground not actually covered by the ice when it was deposited. According to Prof. Dana's use of this term, however, it would be synonymous with englacial, as Prof. Chamberlin designates the drift enclosed in the lower part of the ice-sheet. 1898 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LIV. 205 The débris-bands and intraglacial material with which the lower part of the glacier is so richly charged. 1966 Geogr. Abstr. A. 287 In the intraglacial zone are found: forms of marginal dissection, numerous eskers and kames.

1892 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. CIII. 466 The author believes that in circumscribed growths, in the future, the only operation that will be admissible will be the bloodless *intra-glandular method. 1909 Practitioner Nov. 682 Intraglandular enucleation..should be performed. 1969 Cancer XXIV. 765/2 The intraglandular dissemination of thyroid cancer was seen in a very high proportion in follicular adenocarcinoma.

1940 Becker & Obermayer Mod. Dermatol. & Syphilol. xlviii. 798/1 *Intragluteal injection should be made in the upper outer quadrant of the buttock. 1961 Lancet 29 July 268/2 They were given 125 units of chorionic gonadotrophin daily by deep intragluteal injection.

1964 P. Worsley in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 388 The institutional norms..*intra-governmental and intra-social. 1967 Time 10 Feb. 58 An ugly intragovernmental feud over the creation of an electronics and broadcasting giant.

1887 Syd. Soc. Lex., *Intra⁓hepatic. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 28 The intrahepatic bile-ducts. Ibid. 82 Increased viscidity of bile, consequent on intrahepatic catarrh.

1896 Current Hist. (U.S.) VI. 916 *Intra-Imperial Communication.

1872 Cohen Dis. Throat 107 Chronic inflammation of the vocal cords and other *intra⁓laryngeal structures.

1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 828, 8216 [cases] had been operated on *intra-laryngeally.

1944 Amer. Jrnl. Ophthalm. XXVII. 1427/1 A case of *intralenticular foreign body is presented. 1962 Harris & Gruber in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism Rel. Cataract 383 If..there are capsular and intralenticular barriers to diffusion..localized accumulation of fluid could occur.

1900 Brit. Med. Jrnl. No. 2040. 261 A specimen of *intraligamentous myoma removed by cœliotomy.

1937 O. Jespersen Analytic Syntax ii. xxix. 109 In the case of..the German or Latin masculine the correspondence with the extralingual quality ‘male sex’ is far from being pure: here the extralingual and the *intralingual are inextricably mingled. Ibid., When the preterit is used for ‘the shifted present time’ in indirect speech this cannot in the same way be said to refer to something outside the linguistic expression: it is intralingual. 1956 J. Whatmough Lang. 63 For intralingual purposes (i.e. communication within a single language) every language is a good language for those who actually use it. 1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. i. 3 ‘Intralingual’ translation..consists essentially in rewording something within the same language. 1965 Language XLI. 505 Meaning refers to the intralingual relations contracted by linguistic units.

1937 J. R. Firth Tongues of Men iii. 34 For the vast majority of mankind clicks are extra-linguistic sounds, but for..Zulus they are *intra-linguistic—that is to say, they form part of grammatical words. 1945 Mind LIV. 149 Morris' ‘syntactics’..deals only with relations among expressions in a language and thus with an entirely intra-linguistic subject-matter. 1962 U. Weinreich in Householder & Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 35 Over-schematized though it may be, ad hoc intralinguistic considerations suggest that ‘c1 and c2’ should have been considered a single condition.

1847–9 Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 133/1 The *intra-locular matter is in itself soft.

1833 Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 152 Syllogism and enthymeme being distinguished as two *intralogical forms of argumentation.

1936 Stedman Med. Dict. (ed. 13) 555/2 *Intraluminal, intra⁓tubal. 1943 Jrnl. Clin. Invest. XXII. 225/1 The clinical importance of intra-luminal pressure measurements in hollow viscera is well exemplified by the syndromes of hyper- and hypotension in the cardiovascular system. 1961 Lancet 30 Sept. 738/2 This flora may have utilised a relatively large part of the intraluminal nutrients during their logarithmic rate of growth. 1971 Gut XII. 268 Intraluminal pressure measurements may be a useful guide for the treatment of achalasia by pneumatic dilatations.

1892 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. CIV. 96 (heading) The treatment of *intra-mammary abscesses. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 8 Mar. 107/1 His vet bill was too high... The balance was for drugs—almost entirely expensive intra⁓mammary antibiotics. 1971 Jrnl. Endocrinol. LI. p. xiii, The myoepithelial cells of the mammary gland contract in response to oxytocin and this results in a rise in intra⁓mammary pressure.

1846 Worcester cites Loudon for *Intramarginal. 1875 Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 361 The sori..are placed on an intramarginal anastomosing bend of the veins, and covered with a cup-shaped indusium.

1884 Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 383 Those parts of Phanerogamic Parasites which are developed inside the host, (*intramatrically), as well as their haustoria, behave differently.

1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 395 *Intra⁓meningeal hæmorrhage.

1904 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods I. 300 The *intra-mental and the extra-mental objects..differ only in position and in relational context. 1935 Mind XLIV. 356 Purely intra-mental causation. 1958 Intra-mental [see extra-mental (extra- 1)].

1946 Mind LV. 372 Notwithstanding his insistence on the *intra-mentality of objects, he keeps ‘what is in the mind {oqq}intirely distinct{cqq} from the mind itself’.

1878 Newcomb Pop. Astron. iii. iii. 286 The supposed *intra-Mercurial planets.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 9/3 [He] says: ‘The East London Company give a constant supply to the whole of their *intra-Metropolitan and all their extra-Metropolitan area, with the exception of a small portion near Buckhurst Hill.

1864 Reader 5 Mar. 302 A deep, precipitous, *intramontane chasm, forming the basin of a profound lake—viz., the ‘Dead Sea’.

1962 A. Tietze in Householder & Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 272 It has no *intra⁓morphemic changes. 1973 A. H. Sommerstein Sound Pattern Anc. Greek ii. 22 Words containing intramorphemic clusters /pm bm p{suph}m/..all, historically, underwent assimilation.

1874 Barker tr. Frey's Histol. §183 *Intramuscular. 1878 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 500 The intramuscular veins are sometimes affected without the subcutaneous. 1946 Nature 17 Aug. 242/2 The present data..cover some twenty-six treatment schedules with intra⁓muscular penicillin. 1962 Luntz & Wright in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism Rel. Cataract 317 These persons,..when given a desensitizing course of intramuscular injections.., rapidly improved.

1909 Practitioner Dec. 871 Digalen..can be used by the mouth, by the rectum, intravenously, *intramuscularly, and hypodermically. 1933 Discovery Jan. 4/2 This could be safely injected intramuscularly and intravenously. 1961 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. XCIV. 917 A carcinoma had been transplanted intramuscularly, intraperitoneally, or into the lungs.

1886 Med. News 21 Aug. 213 (Heading) Neurotic asthma and other neurotic maladies in their relations to *intranasal disease. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 684 Cases of intra-nasal lupus.

1933 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 24 June 2014/1 These agents were given *intra⁓nasally. 1961 Lancet 23 Sept. 680/2 Swiss white mice..were infected intranasally with..egg cultures of influenza viruses. 1971 Infection & Immunity IV. 738 Statolon..when instilled intranasally (IN) protects mice infected with lethal doses of influenza virus.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 304/1 The causes of the high death-rate among infants, whether due to ante-natal, *intra-natal, or neo-natal conditions, come under..observation. 1922 Rep. Public Health & Med. Subjects (Ministry of Health) No. 7. 8 Death during labour—intra-natal fœtal death. 1963 D. G. W. Clyne Textbk. Gynaecol. & Obstetr. xxxvii. 875 The intranatal care of the premature infant has been summarized.

1923 G. O'Brien Ess. Econ. Effects Reformation iv. 179 It is an institution at once *intranational and international. 1940 A. Huxley Let. 15 Dec. (1969) 464 Two satisfactory alternatives, either voluntary international and intranational co-operation, or balance of power.

1901 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) II. 110/1 Foci of degeneration in the nerves were found to correspond to nodules upon *intraneural arterial branches. 1936 H. Mulder Cognition & Volition in Lang. iii. 118 A bit of intra⁓neural behavior in the brain of the man who coined it. 1954 Zachary & Roaf in H. J. Seddon Peripheral Nerve Injuries ii. 73 Complete palsies have been caused by the accidental intraneural injection of a noxious substance.

1887 Syd. Soc. Lex., *Intranuclear network, a delicate system of protoplasmic fibres traversing the nucleus of cells.

1879 Jrnl. R. Microsc. Soc. II. 138 Finally, the ordinary *intranucleolar network is produced, marking the completion of the division process and the entrance of the nuclei into a state of quiescence. 1970 Jrnl. Cell Biol. XLV. 584 (heading) Aberrant intranucleolar maturation of ribosomal precursors in the absence of protein synthesis.

1880 Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XV. 106 Inner lip..rising into a tooth on the first *intraoral thread.

1887 Syd. Soc. Lex., *Intra-orbital aneurysm, aneurysm occurring within the orbit, and therefore affecting one of the branches of the ophthalmic artery.

1894 A. C. Fraser in Locke Hum. Und. II. iv. xi. 327 An odd and inadequate illustration; for ‘writing’ and ‘moving the hand’, although *intraorganic, as much need to have their reality indicated as the sight of black or white does. 1962 S. K. Langer Philos. Sk. i. 9 Sentience is a phase of vital process itself, a strictly intraorganic phase, i.e., an appearance which is presented only within the organism in which the activity occurs.

1941 J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man xi. 241 Analogy may very readily mislead. Weismann sought to apply this same analogy of *intra⁓organismal struggle and selection to the units of heredity; but the analogy happens not to hold good. 1952 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XLIII. 245 The production of a neurosis in a cat by a method that is of special interest in that a difficult discrimination of intraorganismal cues was involved.

1955 *Intraorganismic [see extra-organismic (extra- 1)].

1835–6 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 61/1 Oleaginous matter is deposited in the *intra⁓osseous tissue.

1898 J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. IX. 295 What appeared to be a very large *intra-osteal cartilaginous tumour.

1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 1035 The embryo though visible, has not quite completed its *intra⁓oval development.

1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. iii. 74 The identity of the *intra-parasitic pigment and that found in the tissues.

1858 Lit. Churchman IV. 257/1 The best methods of what we may call *intra-parochial organization.

1887 Syd. Soc. Lex., *Intrapelvic. 1893 A. S. Eccles Sciatica 5 The probability of intrapelvic pressure being the predisposing, if not the exciting, cause of the sciatic pain.

1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 405 *Intra⁓pericardiac aneurism of the aorta.

1875 Hayden Dis. Heart 9 The *intra-pericardial portions of the pulmonary artery, aorta, and superior vena cava.

1835–6 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 19 The viscera have..been distinguished..by the names *intra-peritoneal and extra-peritoneal. 1881 Erichsen in Times 4 Aug. 11/5 The operative treatment of intraperitonœal tumours.

1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 700 When inoculated *intraperitoneally into guinea-pigs, it causes, in from 11 to 20 days, a paresis of the hind limbs.

1909 W. M. Urban Valuation x. 286 The terms of estimation are..wholly *intra-personal, within the ego. 1935 G. K. Zipf Psycho-Biol. of Lang. (1936) 297 The occasions of inter-personal conflict are often occasions for intra⁓personal conflict as well. 1955 R. Jakobson in H. Werner On Expressive Lang. 79 A competition of both devices is manifest in any symbolic process, either intrapersonal or social.

1878 S. H. Hodgson Philos. of Reflect. i. iii. §1. 167 What is the nature of this or that existence in the supra-scientific but *intra-philosophic region?

1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 380 If the opening be..free, air passes out of the pleural sac as well as into it, and there may be *intrapleural tension.

1878 Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 365 With a very strong polarizing current the whole *intra-polar portion of the nerve is put into a state of anelectrotonus. 1887 Syd. Soc. Lex., Intrapolar region, Pflüger's term for the part of an electrotonic nerve through which an exciting current is passing, being that between the poles of the battery.

1917 C. R. Payne tr. Pfister's Psychoanal. Method viii. 169 The sleeping state lowers the power of the *intra⁓psychic censor. 1954 J. A. C. Brown Social Psychol. of Industry ix. 252 Frustration, whether intrapsychic or due to external factors.

1935 Mind XLIV. 215 The interplay of conflicting *intra-psychical forces.

1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 65 Instances of sustained *intra-pulmonary pressure.

1923 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. LXV. 229 Blood pressure changes are..complicated by the increased *intrapulmonic pressure interfering with filling of the heart. 1968 Biol. Abstr. XLIX. 2076/2 Excess intrapulmonic pressure in the abdominal and thoracic cavities.

1903 Biometrika Feb. 152 The interracial correlation of the mean numbers of stamens and pistils is very much greater than the mean *intraracial correlation between stamens and pistils. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 717 Intraracial inhibition. 1957 Antiquity XXXI. 196 These two groups [of early Man] are in effect intra⁓racial variants.

1893 A. S. Eccles Sciatica 56 Cases in which *intra-rectal electrization is adopted.

1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 204 *Intra-regional trade increased. 1966 B.B.C. Handbk. 1966 51 These intra-regional services are directed..to the region as a whole.

1909 Webster, *Intrasegmental. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 456/2 Intrasegmental, said of vertebrae which arise by the fusion of the cranial and caudal elements of the same somite. 1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form 3 It is to be noted however that the intra-segmental range of a suprasegmental phoneme has normally no distinctive relevance. 1972 Language XLVIII. 46 In intra-segmental variation, as has been seen, different values for a feature are distributed over different portions of one and the same segment.

1895 S. H. Vines Students' Text-bk. Bot. II. iii. 440 The *intra-seminal stage includes the whole of the development which the embryo undergoes during the conversion of the ovule into the ripe seed. 1902 Nature 3 Apr. 519/1 Seeds from infected plants are entirely free from disease, thereby proving fairly conclusively the impossibility of intra-seminal sources of infection. 1930 Ann. Bot. XLIV. 772 The germination of the seed [of Garrya elliptica] is reported as ‘intra-seminal’.

1835–6 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 59/1 The *intra-serous sebaceous fat. 1896 Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 244 Drugs may be introduced..by Intraserous Injection.

1932 H. H. Price Perception viii. 257 The revival of kinaesthetic and other *intra-somatic data..is..far less common. 1938 [see extrasomatic a.]. 1939 Mind XLVIII. 517 His treatment of intrasomatic sense-perception is equally precise. 1948 Mind LVII. 246 Any ‘map’ which may be elaborated at this level has a purely ‘intrasomatic’ significance.

1840 G. V. Ellis Anat. 158 The *intra-spinal veins are very numerous.

1906 Jrnl. Physiol. XXXIV. 31 The reflex arcs from separate areas of the receptive field are closely knit together *intraspinally. 1970 Biol. Abstr. LI. 7775/1 (heading) Clinical trials with the use of 5% phenol intraspinally in the treatment of cancer pain.

1847–9 Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 118/2 All growths possess vessels which..permeate..*intrastromal substances.

1914 Myers & Valentine in Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. VII. i. 72 Bullough's..physiological aspect has here been extended to include not merely the sensory effects and the changes in feeling..but also the experiences of self-activity which the sounds may produce in the subject; in consequence, the word ‘*intra⁓subjective’ will be substituted for this aspect. 1921 E. Bullough Ibid. XII. i. 86 After the experiments of C. S. Myers..I would adopt the term ‘intra-subjective’ proposed by him, in place of ‘physiological’, which..was found by him to be too narrow, when applied to musical experiences. 1955 Times 26 May 3/4 Bruckner was a late romantic and as such was concerned with intra-subjective emotion as the material of his art. His fondling of an idea, then dropping it, at a silent pause and picking up another involves no incongruity. 1959 W. V. Quine in R. A. Brower On Translation ii. 159 Intrasubjective synonymy..is intrasubjective in that the synonyms are joined for each subject by sameness of stimulus meaning for him;..intrasubjective synonymy is in principle just as objective, just as discoverable by the outside linguist, as is translation.

1888 Syd. Soc. Lex., *Intratesticular. 1921 Brain XLIV. 168 In case XXIX an intratesticular injection of 3 c.c. [was given]. 1958 Immunology I. 4 For intratesticular grafting, the right testis was delivered through the smallest possible incision in the scrotum. 1970 Sci. Jrnl. June 68/2 The spermatozoa..are transferred through an uninterrupted system of ducts which originate from a complex network of intratesticular ducts.

1942 Cancer Res. II. 288 After the blood examinations had been concluded, the animals were inoculated *intratesticularly with the Brown-Pearce tumor. 1971 Lipids VI. 706/1 Fatty acid synthesis was studied in testes of young and adult rats either injected intratesticularly or incubated with 1—14C acetate.

1887 G. C. Bourne in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sc. Aug. 31 In the *intrathecal parts of the polyp the endoderm cells are entirely converted into a parenchymatous tissue. 1921 Brain XLIV. 168 In Case III an intrathecal injection of 1·5 c.c. cerebrospinal fluid was given. 1960 P. W. Daykin Vet. Appl. Pharmacol. & Therapeutics iv. 36 Administration by the intrathecal route involves the penetration of the dura mater, and the route is not frequently used in veterinary practice. 1971 Jrnl. Path. CIV. 141 An intrathecal lipoma of the filum terminale..was found in a 2-yr-old female infant dying from extensive burns.

1928 L. E. H. Whitby Med. Bacteriol. xxiii. 236 The most popular method is to inject 500 units *intrathecally immediately the diagnosis is made. 1972 Lancet 30 Dec. 1401/2 An account of the toxicity of antifolate drugs given intrathecally.

1862 H. W. Fuller Dis. Lungs 17 Instances in which the lung is compressed by *intra-thoracic tumours. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 195 Seven cases of intrathoracic aneurism.

1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 326 *Intra-tracheal injections of menthol.

1923 Jrnl. Exper. Med. XXXVII. 793 (caption) Protocols of rabbits treated *intratracheally and intraperitoneally with killed cultures of hog-cholera bacillus. 1930 Jrnl. Laboratory & Clin. Med. XVI. 87 (heading) A new apparatus for administering volatile anesthetics intratracheally without tracheotomy. 1973 Nature 16 Mar. 203/2 Turkey poults were inoculated intratracheally.

1887 Syd. Soc. Lex., *Intratubal, within a tube, as the Eustachian or the Fallopian tube. 1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 27 The occasional intratubal mucous inspissations of acute bronchitis.

1858 Thudichum Urine 245 The presence in the urine of *intratubular hyaloid casts indicates a chronic disease of the kidneys.

1934 Mind XLIII. 74 An *intra-typical variable is a variable all of whose arguments are of one type. 1959 P. F. Strawson Individuals i. i. 53 The cases in which this intra-typical identification is possible are severely restricted. For they require that the parties to an identifying reference should be operating with one and the same type-homogeneous referential framework.

1881 Watson in Jrnl. Lin. Soc. XV. No. 85. 261 Slightly nicked by the *intraumbilical furrow.

1886 Edin. Rev. July 15 The telephone is coming more and more into use for short distances and *intra⁓urban communications.

1887 Syd. Soc. Lex., *Intra-urethral. 1898 J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. IX. 362 He comes to me in June with an intra-urethral ulcer.

1857 Bullock Cazeaux' Midwif. 57 The neck..in its *intra⁓vaginal portion. 1900 I. B. Balfour tr. Goebel's Organogr. Plants II. 359 The intravaginal squamules are organs which secrete mucilage for the protection of the bud. 1951 McLean & Ivimey-Cook Textbk. Theoret. Bot. I. xxii. 993 The first [leaf structures] are called intravaginal scales because they appear in the axil within the leaf sheath or vagina of certain Monocotyledons... They take the form of small tooth-like scales.

1866 Treas. Bot., *Intravalvular, placed within valves, as the dissepiments of many crucifers.

1916 Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden VI. 352 The marked self-sterility of individual plants, the *intra-varietal sterility, and the cases of inter-varietal sterility are not due to ‘any inherent weakness of either ovaries or pollen grains’. 1970 Euphytica XIX. 382 (heading) Intra-varietal variation of yield in two varieties of Lolium perenne L.

1969 Encycl. Sci. Suppl. (Grolier) 329 The *intravehicular space suit consists of: fecal containment subsystem, constant wear garment, [etc.]. 1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon iii. 62 There were two kinds of suits... Mike Collins had the lighter ‘intravehicular’ version.

1909 Webster, *Intraverbal. 1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form 87 On the level of the sememe itself, all such facts as congruence, rection, extra-verbal as opposed to intra-verbal formation, are excluded. 1957 B. F. Skinner in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 229/2 A comparable minimal repertoire was found to be lacking in intraverbal behavior.

1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lex. Med. Sci. (1860) 535/2 *Intra-vertebral chord. 1896 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. CLXXXVII. 10 One of the last changes of importance is the appearance of intra⁓vertebral cartilage. Ibid. 12 In all Amphibia and Amniota each spinal nerve lies intravertebrally, i.e. issues behind the dorsal arch of its vertebra.

1887 Syd. Soc. Lex., *Intravesical. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 438 It [a stone in the ureter] may be arrested by the narrow intravesical portion.

  2. Prefixed to ns., forming adjs., with the sense ‘Situated, occurring, carried on, etc. within{ddd}’; as intra-station; intra-class, -party, -state, occurring within a class, political party, state. Also intracloud, within a cloud; intra-day, occurring within one day; intra-list Psychol., occurring between lists (of words, numbers, etc.) within a test situation; intra-sentence, occurring within a sentence. (Cf. anti- 4, inter- 5.)

1950 Intra-class [see inter-class (inter- 5)]. 1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Apr. 306 The intraclass correlation was significant but small.

1970 Sci. News 28 Mar. 320 Zeroing in on intracloud lightning. 1973 J. L. Marshall Lightning Protection iii. 31 The higher frequency radiation is dominant in intracloud discharges.

1972 Daily Tel. 11 Nov. 17/4 The previous intra-day high for this most illustrious of all stock market indices was 1,001·11 which was reached more than six-and-a-half years ago on Feb. 9, 1966. 1972 Korea Times 16 Nov. 3/5 The Dow topped 1,000 on an intraday basis—a compilation of the day's highs for all component issues.

1942 Jrnl. Exper. Psychol. XXX. 185 (heading) Intra-list generalization as a factor in verbal learning. 1958 G. A. Miller in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 213/2 The redundant strings show greater intralist similarity. 1970 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Oct. 256 The last letter being thus the only characteristic by which the entire series was to be differentiated..would reduce the level of intralist interference. 1971 Ibid. Apr. 194 Overt intralist intrusions were scored as if stimuli had been clustered for both groups.

1923 Glasgow Herald 24 Apr. 8/4 Mr Harding proposed to the Senate that the United States should accept membership of the Court of International Justice at The Hague... Present indications are that he will refuse to retreat, and will make participation in the Court the issue of the preliminary intra-party campaign. 1963 Economist 20 July 257/1 This is nothing less than an intraparty revolt. 1969 Sunday Statesman (Calcutta) 27 July 12/3 The intra-party quarrel of the SSP deepens. 1969 Computers & Humanities IV. 129 Investigation of intra-sentence parallelism in present-day American prose.

1903 E. Johnson Amer. Railway Transportation 370 In 1886 the Supreme Court in the Wabash decision..limited the authority of the State strictly to the intrastate traffic and excluded that moving from one State to another. 1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 37/2, 101 inter- and intra-state motor freight lines serving the Port of Toledo. 1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 90 Intrastate shipping, any transportation of goods that has its origin and destination within the same state. 1888 Pall Mall G. 9 May 4/1 Better mechanical appliances for coupling and uncoupling waggons, improved methods of working intra-station traffic.

  3. Prefixed, in adverbial relation, to nouns of action, as in intra-susception, the action of taking into its own substance (cf. intussusception).

1666 J. Smith Old Age 160 Parts of the Body..nourished by the intra-susception of enlivened aliment.

  
  
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   ▸ intranidal adj. Entomol. and Ecol. occurring or living within the nest (of a social insect).

1946 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 15 151/1 Obligatory competitive relationships..*intra-nidal..obligatory slave-making. 1997 Animal Behaviour 53 499 The single-queen status of monogyne colonies may be retained by a high rate of female dispersal in combination with few intra-nidal mating opportunities.

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