Intracorporeal
Intracorporeal or intracorporal is an adjective that means within (intra-) the body (corpus).[1] Its antonym is extracorporeal.
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Medical illustration demonstrating the injection of an anesthetizing cocaine solution into the corpora cavernosa of a tourniqueted penis.
Date: 1920
Date: 1920
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
The dictionary definition of intracorporeal at Wiktionary- The dictionary definition of intracorpuscular at Wiktionary
- Human body (corpus humanum)
- In vivo
References
- Venes, Donald (2017). Taber's Medical Dictionary (23rd ed.). A. Davis Company. ISBN 0803659040.
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