Intracorporeal
# 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
