Intracorporeal

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

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