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a prefix meaning “within,” used in the formation of compound words: intramural.

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Origin of intra-

<Late Latin intrā-, representing Latin intrā (adv. and preposition); akin to interior, inter-

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH intra-

inter-, intra-

Words nearby intra-

intoxicated, intoxicating, intoxication, intoxicative, intr., intra-, intra-abdominal, intra-aortic balloon device, intra-aortic balloon pump, intra-arterial, intra-atomic

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But for now all intra-Kurdish squabbles have been put aside to face the Islamic State, as ISIS now calls itself.
PKK Kurdish Terrorists Are Fighting IS Terrorists With U.S. Help|Thomas Seibert|August 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The elites almost always win the intra-GOP battle against the voting base.
2016 Just May Be the GOP Base’s Year|Lloyd Green|August 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Elsewhere, incumbents romped across the state, even though many may face intra-party challenges in November.
Order Restored In Wacky California Primary|David Freedlander|June 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Instead, the strategy seems to be to wait until the intra-party Republican primaries are over by early summer.
Will Immigration Reform Be John Boehner’s Legacy?|John Avlon|February 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST

And third, there remains in the Democratic Party this intra-party fight about economic populism and growth.
Obama and Inequality (and Clinton): A Long-Term Project|Michael Tomasky|December 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Impotentia vel temporanea causa divortii esse potest si impotens intra spatium temporis rationabile remedium medicinale recuset.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
From my experience with patients I doubt whether many of them would submit to the intra-nasal spark.
The Treatment of Hay Fever|George Frederick Laidlaw
It has been less than two centuries since they fought an intra-system war that almost destroyed both of them.
Deathworld|Harry Harrison
Rex militibus, liberis hominibus, et toti communitati comitatus Wygorni tam intra libertates quam extra, salutem.
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3)|Henry Hallam
This intra-organic pulling and hauling, this strife of active tendencies, is a genuine phenomenon.
Essays in Experimental Logic|John Dewey

British Dictionary definitions for intra-

intra-

prefix

within; insideintravenous

Word Origin for intra-

from Latin intrā on the inside, within; see interior

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Medical definitions for intra-

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Within:intramedullary.

Scientific definitions for intra-

intra-

A prefix meaning inside or within, as in intravenous, within a vein.

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