Intracorporeal

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Medical illustration demonstrating the injection of an anesthetizing cocaine solution into the corpora cavernosa of a tourniqueted penis.
Date: 1920

Intracorporeal or intracorporal is an adjective that means within (intra-) the body (corpus).[1] Its antonym is extracorporeal. It is used frequently in medicine to describe medical procedures that occur within the body, or within a corpus, as opposed to extracorporeal procedures (e.g. extracorporeal membrane oxygenation). In a medical or surgical context, it may refer to:

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References

  1. Venes, Donald (2017). Taber's Medical Dictionary (23rd ed.). A. Davis Company. ISBN 978-0803659049.