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