Intracorporeal

Intracorporeal or intracorporal is an adjective that means within (intra-) the body (corpus). Its antonym is extracorporeal.

Medical illustration demonstrating the injection of an anesthetizing cocaine solution into the corpora cavernosa of a tourniqueted penis.
Date: 1920

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