1Of or situated on the inside.

1. 1.1 Inside the body.
   internal bleeding

   Example sentencesExamples

   • However, patients who have major duct injury may require internal drainage or pancreatic resection.
   • A peptic ulcer is a sore in the lining of your stomach or small intestine. Left untreated, a peptic ulcer can cause internal bleeding.
   • When large bones, such as the pelvis or femur are fractured, there will be internal bleeding from the bone and this can cause similar symptoms.
   • It holds in body heat and cushions your internal organs against injury.
   • This allows exposure of the entire length of the superior compartment of the internal auditory canal without injury to the cochlear and vestibular labyrinth.
   • Typically, the patient presents with the arm held close to the body in abduction and internal rotation.
   • Blood vessels near the surface of the skin constrict to preserve internal body heat, reducing blood flow to the skin.
   • Small venous branches from the internal mammary vein were clipped and divided.
   • Both use light to magnify and view the internal structures of the body.
   • He or she separates the lining of the distal anal canal from the underlying internal sphincter muscle.
   • People who are aware of their internal body state apparently experience more anxiety and other negative emotions in daily life.
   • He published an atlas showing the exact position of the internal organs of the body and their relations.
   • This causes pain and can damage the body's internal organs.
   • In some types the internal linings of the body can be affected, as well as the cornea of the eye.
   • Robert Hooke realized the value of auscultation and stated that it may be possible to discover the motions of the internal parts of bodies by the sound they make.
   • The cushions are suspended in the canal by a connective tissue framework derived from the internal anal sphincter and longitudinal muscle.
   • Coma occurs when the internal body temperature falls below 77° F.
   • This muscle thickens near the urethra to form the internal and external sphincters.
   • It took firefighters an hour to cut her free from the wreckage in which she broke her neck and her leg, crushed her pelvis and suffered massive internal injuries including brain-stem damage.
   • These responses can occur when materials containing latex come into contact with the skin, mucous membranes, or internal tissues.

   Synonyms

   inside, inner

   within the body, inside the body
2. 1.2 Existing or occurring within an organization.
   an internal telephone system

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The unique building was the first in Scotland to have a private internal telephone system.
   • Operational perceived benefits are defined as the operational savings due to the improved internal efficiency of the organization.
   • Employees may search the organization's internal databases for electronic documents to help them complete their tasks.
   • It is best suited to businesses that need the special capabilities of an internal digital telephone system.
   • A six-station internal telephone system is linked via the operator's console to the external communications system.
   • One suggestion already implemented was adding a subject line to the organization's internal messaging system.
   • Some companies will employ similar methods on their existing employees for internal recruitment, training and development.
   • Nigel took charge of the cigarette while Pru used the ground-floor extension of the internal telephone system.
   • Unless the IT infrastructure is truly unique, why is any organization still struggling with internal IT delivery?
   • The report revealed cases of bullying and intimidation of members, who also felt they could achieve little remedy through the existing internal complaints system.
   • One of the more intractable outsourcing relationships is when one organization manages another's internal systems.
   • Organizations that function as internal labor markets possess market power, usually because of the desirability of their jobs or the level of their wages.
   • Partitioning is also a great way of separating processes for different customers, either external organizations or internal departments.
   • They appeal only to an internal audience: the organization's employees, in particular its managers.
   • It will also examine the audit system and other internal controls within the bank.
   • But the reports emphasized the internal split within the organization on how to handle this volatile talent.
   • My estimation of him grew when we became involved in trying to make internal changes in our organization, some of which were focused on the treatment of people of color.
   • Capabilities are less tangible and result from the organization of resources, internal systems, and skills.
   • But at least it would not be within internal management of the system.
   • He said that other police officers called him from public phones in the building because they did not trust the internal telephone system.

   Synonyms

   domestic, home, interior, civil, local

   national, state

   in-house, in-company
3. 1.3 Relating to affairs and activities within a country rather than with other countries; domestic.
   internal flights

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Portugal led the small nations' campaign to present the sanctions as an unwarranted interference in a country's internal affairs.
   • Decolonization was nearly complete so most insurgencies were internal struggles rather than wars of national liberation.
   • How do we draft a clause that says intervention is allowed if almost the entire world is outraged by the internal policies of a country, but not if it is just a private quarrel between one country and another?
   • He proposes legislation and a budget, executes the laws, and guides the foreign and internal policies of the republic.
   • The Chinese government then condemned the Nobel Committee for interfering in its internal affairs.
   • No one seems to think that the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations vests a power in Congress to regulate the internal affairs of other nations.
   • Previously, the sovereignty norm codified in the UN Charter has operated to prevent intervention in the internal affairs of sovereign states.
   • But since then, legislation and changes in internal policies have made information sharing much easier.
   • An NGO must respect the norm of non-interference in the internal affairs of states.
   • And second, it's probably not good to intervene in the internal affairs of a nation that is looking for a worthy path of development.
   • For the first time, the European Union has interfered directly in the internal policy of a member country.
   • What I do think is that the US gov. is viciously exploiting this event as an excuse to carry out all sorts of sketchy activity, both in its internal and foreign policies.
   • We must also develop our own internal domestic violence policies so we can do more to assist the women who may become battered while they work for us.
   • Britain should seek to recover control over all those aspects of domestic policy which do not directly impact on the internal affairs of another member state.
   • He just takes it for granted that a liberal internal polity shapes external policy.
   • The fact remains that brute force is boastfully invoked alike in the internal affairs and foreign policies of the totalitarian state.
   • UN agencies have to balance universal human rights with the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of member states.
   • Interference in the internal affairs of these nations now extends to demands of educational reform, and insistence on ‘democratisation’.
   • In a sense, the European Union has no internal policies.
   • China can no longer argue that currency policy is an internal affair

   Synonyms

   domestic, local, national, interior, native
4. 1.4 Experienced in one's mind; inner rather than expressed.
   internal feelings

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The nature of transformation I have in mind is both internal and external.
   • The sources of behavior are external (in the environment), not internal (in the mind).
   • You organize with difficulty and you find yourself experiencing a lot of internal conflicts in your learning and life patterns.
   • Overclocking my brain, so that a mass of thoughts could present themselves on the internal television where my mind decides what to do.
   • Our observation may be employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds.
   • Many times we refuse to make that internal change in our minds.
   • The source of ideas is experience, the observation of external objects or of the internal operations of the mind, i.e. sensation or reflection.
   • But the most important thing really is to quiet your internal dialogue and experience the stillness that's in you.
   • Not only is it very soothing to the face and forehead, but it also clears the mind of all extraneous internal chatter.
   • Keep in mind that standards are internal; they are not something that you can or should push on to someone else.
   • No matter how seemingly placid the surface response, those who fail to obtain the position will experience some internal distress.
   • This is where I personally so often experience an internal tension.
   • Her best friend and she had their first fight, only making Hannah's internal state of mind even more convoluted.
   • Yet, he expresses more internal torment with a few grunts and a couple of tobacco spits than most actors can with 10 pages of dialogue.
   • It's times when I feel myself really start to get down that I know I need to read a book and get my mind off the internal conflict.
   • Open as they were, they offered a window to Chris' internal state of mind, and the despair and fear and misery she saw in them made her feel physically sick.
   • And anger, craving, jealousy, despair can create internal formations in our mind.
   • It could be just one man's internal torment and trying to express that.
   • The internal sense mind is that which knows all objects.
   • But eventually even that fell apart under the withering internal gaze of my mind's eye.

   Synonyms

   mental, psychological, emotional

   personal, private, secret, hidden, intimate
5. 1.5 Of the inner nature of a thing; intrinsic.
   the party suffered from grave internal weaknesses

   Example sentencesExamples

   • In natural beauty, the beauty is external to the thought; in art the beauty is internal to the work.
   • If obligations really were internal to promising then the obligation to keep a promise would have to derive from the institution of promising.
   • The premises of multiculturalism don't even permit asking whether reasons internal to the groups themselves might account for differences in outcomes.
   • Consequently, truth and knowledge are not just internal to regimes of truth, but relate to the world beyond and must be judged accordingly.
   • The major difference is that in Shakespeare the symbolic opposition between the world of sober morality and that of holiday freedom is normally made internal to the play.
   • As it is, the photographic apparatus is always external to the image, though certainly internal to her life.
   • Disciplinary actions are internal to the police force and it is often difficult for the judiciary, but also for civil society, to monitor their implementation.
   • Other reasons for hope are internal to societies where severe repression and violence reign.
   • A career in advertising can be pursued with good conscience when the good internal to the practice of advertising is creating these positive exchanges.
   • Here you have it neat and vibrantly loud - and confected from concepts internal to the celluloid world.
   • There is no sense of the government on one side and on the other an opposition which is internal to the EU's structures but external to its governing powers.
   • Not being here was internal to his impotence, if that makes sense, not that it would have made the slightest practical difference whether he were here or not.
   • They embody movement and the movement seems to be as much internal to the landscape as in the animals.
   • And is contextual information lost in remapping the images to another system of categories that might be internal to the organization?
   • Some works are so broad in scope, so inclusive, even of contradictions internal to themselves, that they can be used to justify almost anything.
   • Nothing internal to the republican movement has shifted; there has been no reassessment of its ideology, let alone any critical rethinking of its history.
   • For at the core of mastery internal to ethics is always the power to decide who dies and who does not.
   • The skeptics call attention to certain self-imposed limitations internal to rights discourse stemming from its embrace of the public private distinction.
   • For Smith, then, nature becomes internal to capitalism in such a way that the very distinction implied by using these terms is eroded and undermined.
   • This is merely a dramatic illustration of a generalised conflict internal to Islam.

2British (of a student) attending a university as well as taking its examinations.

Inner parts or features.