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

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