Intracorporeal
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Date: 1920
Date: 1920
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
- Intracorporeal electrohydraulic lithotripsy
- Intracorporeal laser lithotripsy
- Intracorporeal pneumatic lithotripsy
- Intracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy
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See also
- Intracorpuscular (a related term meaning 'within a small body', usually referring to the body of a blood cell)
- Extracorporeal
- Human body (corpus humanum)
- In vivo
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