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). 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:

• Intracorporeal anastomosis
• Intracorporeal circulation
• Intracorporeal energy harvesting, harvesting energy from the body, and storing it, to sustain a medical device (e.g. a pacemaker).
• Intracorporeal injection
• Intracorporeal microrobotics
• Intracorporeal reconstruction
• Intracorporeal suturing
• Intracorporeal urinary diversion
• Lithotripsy:
  • Intracorporeal electrohydraulic lithotripsy
  • Intracorporeal laser lithotripsy
  • Intracorporeal pneumatic lithotripsy
  • Intracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy

See also

• File:Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg The dictionary definition of intracorporeal at Wiktionary
• File:Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg The dictionary definition of intracorpuscular at Wiktionary
• Human body (corpus humanum)
• In vivo