English dictionary of medical terms (44)

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No:860 - impotentia: impotence; inability.
No:861 - impregnation: (L. impregnatio) 1. the act of fecundation or of rendering pregnant. 2. the process or act of saturation; a saturated condition.
No:862 - inactive: not active.
No:863 - inadequate: 1. not adequate of sufficient; inept of unsuitable. 2. Psychiatry, ineffectual in response to emotional, social, intellectual, and physical demands in the absence of any obvious mental or physical deficiency.
No:864 - incarceration: (L. incarceration-, incarceratio, Fr. L. incarceratus + -ion-, -io, -ion) abnormal retention or confinement of a body part; specifically : a constriction of the neck of a hernial sac so that the hernial contents become irreducible.
No:865 - incidence: 1a. an act or the fact or manner of falling upon or affecting. 1b. rate, range, or amount of occurrence or influence.
No:866 - incidental: 1. small and relatively unimportant, minor; 2. accompanying, but not a major part of something; 3. (to something) liable to occur because of something or in connection with something (said of risks, responsibilities, ...)
No:867 - incision: 1. cleft, cut, gash. 2. an act or action of incising.
No:868 - incisive: 1. having the power or quality of cutting. 2. pertaining to the incisor teeth.
No:869 - inclusive: including something, including much or all.
No:870 - incompatible: (L. incompatibilis) not suitable for combination or simultaneous administration; mutually repellent.
No:871 - incompetence: (L. in not + competens sufficient) physical or mental inadequacy or insufficiency.
No:872 - incontinence: (L. incontinentia) inability to control excretory functions, as defecation (faecal i.) or urination (urinary i.).
No:873 - incorporation: (L. in into + corpus body) 1. the union of one substance with another, or with others, in a composite mass. 2. in psychoanalytic theory, a primitive unconscious defense mechanism in which aspects of another person are assimilated into the self through a figurative process of symbolic oral ingestion.
No:874 - incubation: (L. incubatio) the development of an infectious disease from the entrance of the pathogen to the appearance of clinical symptoms.
No:875 - indicate: 1. to show the probable presence of existence or nature or course of : give fair evidence of : be a fairly certain sign or symptom of (...). 2. to demonstrate or suggest the probable necessity or advisability.
No:876 - indication: (L. indicatio) a sign or circumstance which points to or shows the cause, pathology, treatment, or issue of an attack of disease; that which points out; that which serves as a guide or warning.
No:877 - indicative: that indicates; that points out more or less exactly; that reveals fairly clearly.
No:878 - indirect: (L. indirectus) 1. not immediate or straight. 2. acting through an intermediary agent.
No:879 - individual: marked by a distinctness and a complexity within a unity that characterizes organized things, concepts, organic beings and persons.

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