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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
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