extravital

English

Etymology

extra- +‎ vital

Adjective

extravital (not comparable)

  1. Outside or beyond life.
    • 1931, Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association), Annual report (reprinted papers) of the investigations carried out under the supervision of the Therapeutic Research Committee, volume 20, page 799:
      The peculiar substance resembling fibrin which we have described in the glomerular spaces of animals poisoned during life was also found in the extravital experiments.
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