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