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).^[1] 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:

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 978-0803659049.

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