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Intracorporeal or intracorporal is an adjective that means within (intra-) the body (corpus).{{Cite book |last=Venes |first=Donald |title=Taber's Medical Dictionary |publisher=A. Davis Company |year=2017 |isbn=978-0803659049 |edition=23rd |language=English}} 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:

See also

  • {{wikt-inline|intracorporeal}}
  • {{wikt-inline|intracorpuscular}}
  • Human body (corpus humanum)
  • In vivo

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