11836 IUPAC Gold Book - intracranial pressure 10.1351/goldbook.11836 11836 current initialism: ICP 1 Pressure within the cranial cavity. Increased ICP may result from increased volume of the cerebrospinal fluid. Even minor increases in ICP, e.g., due to intracranial bleeding, may cause serious damage to the brain. brain https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/11647 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 876 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11836/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11836/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11836/plain Citation: 'intracranial pressure' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11836 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-08T05:57:41+00:00