Intracorporeal or intracorporal is an adjective that means within ''(intra-)'' the body ''(corpus)''.
Its antonym is
extracorporeal
An extracorporeal procedure is a medical procedure which is performed outside the body. Extracorporeal devices are the artificial organs that remain outside the body while treating a patient. Extracorporeal devices are useful in hemodialysis and ...
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It is used frequently in medicine to describe
medical procedure
A medical procedure is a course of action intended to achieve a result in the delivery of healthcare.
A medical procedure with the intention of determining, measuring, or diagnosis, diagnosing a patient condition or parameter is also called a medi ...
s that occur within the body, or within a
corpus
Corpus (plural ''corpora'') is Latin for "body". It may refer to:
Linguistics
* Text corpus, in linguistics, a large and structured set of texts
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, as opposed to extracorporeal procedures (e.g.
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a form of extracorporeal life support, providing prolonged cardiac and respiratory system, respiratory support to people whose human heart, heart and human lung, lungs are unable to provide an adequa ...
).
In a medical or surgical context, it may refer to:
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Intracorporeal anastomosis
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Intracorporeal circulation
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Intracorporeal energy harvesting, harvesting energy from the body, and storing it, to sustain a medical device (e.g. a
pacemaker
A pacemaker, also known as an artificial cardiac pacemaker, is an implanted medical device that generates electrical pulses delivered by electrodes to one or more of the chambers of the heart. Each pulse causes the targeted chamber(s) to co ...
).
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Intracorporeal injection
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Intracorporeal microrobotics
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Intracorporeal reconstruction
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Intracorporeal suturing
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Intracorporeal urinary diversion
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Lithotripsy:
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Intracorporeal electrohydraulic lithotripsy
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Intracorporeal laser lithotripsy
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Intracorporeal pneumatic lithotripsy
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Intracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy
See also
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Human body
The human body is the entire structure of a Human, human being. It is composed of many different types of Cell (biology), cells that together create Tissue (biology), tissues and subsequently Organ (biology), organs and then Organ system, org ...
(''corpus humanum'')
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In vivo
Studies that are ''in vivo'' (Latin for "within the living"; often not italicized in English) are those in which the effects of various biological entities are tested on whole, living organisms or cells, usually animals, including humans, an ...
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