intracorporeal 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