{{Short description|Adjective meaning within the body}} {{more citations needed|date=August 2022}} [[File:Local and regional anesthesia; with chapters on spinal, epidural, paravertebral, and parasacral analgesia, and other applications of local and regional anesthesia to the surgery of the eye, ear, nose (14781614484).jpg|thumb|350px|Medical illustration demonstrating the injection of an anesthetizing cocaine solution into the corpora cavernosa of a tourniqueted penis.<br />{{small|'''Date:''' 1920}}]] '''Intracorporeal''' or '''intracorporal''' is an adjective that means within ''(intra-)'' the body ''(corpus)''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Venes |first=Donald |title=Taber's Medical Dictionary |publisher=A. Davis Company |year=2017 |isbn=978-0803659049 |edition=23rd |language=English}}</ref> 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 == * {{wikt-inline|intracorporeal}} * {{wikt-inline|intracorpuscular}} * Human body (''corpus humanum'') * ''In vivo''
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Category:Medical terminology