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title: "Intracorporeal"
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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 ==
 The dictionary definition of intracorporeal at Wiktionary
 The dictionary definition of intracorpuscular at Wiktionary
Human body (corpus humanum)
In vivo


== References ==