title: Intracorporeal
text: # 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
  