Intracorporeal
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 See also * * * Human body (''corpus humanum'') * ''In vivo Studies t ...
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