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Intracorporeal or intracorporal is an adjective that means within (intra-) the body (corpus).[1] Its antonym is extracorporeal.
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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:
See also
edit- The dictionary definition of intracorporeal at Wiktionary
- The dictionary definition of intracorpuscular at Wiktionary
- Human body (corpus humanum)
- In vivo
References
edit- ^ Venes, Donald (2017). Taber's Medical Dictionary (23rd ed.). A. Davis Company. ISBN 978-0803659049.