Category: I

Congenital form of hypothyroidism, formally called cretinism.  

Use of electromagnetic induction to artificially produce a fever in order to treat a primary pathology. Treatment of disease by artificial production of fever by electromagnetic induction.  

A medical device used to encourage a patient to inhale and sustain inspiratory volume to exercise lungs and prevent pulmonary complications. Spirometry in which visual and vocal stimuli are given to the patient to produce maximum effort during deep breathing. Incentive spirometry is used most often in postoperative patients to prevent atelectasis.  

A solution that has an infective agent that has been killed or substantially weakened and does not produce disease.  

A surgically implanted medical device for patients with life-threatening heart arrhythmias.  

Systematic and deliberate destruction of a patient’s immune function, usually to prepare for organ transplantation or to treat severe autoimmune disorders. The systematic destruction of a patient’s immune competence. Immunoablation is used to prepare patients for organ transplantation and to treat refractory autoimmune diseases, especially when followed by immunoreconstruction (usually with autologous stem cell transplantation).…

Knee pain caused by mechanical friction of the iliotibial band across the lateral femoral epicondyle.  

A compound muscle comprised of the iliacus and psoas major muscles that flex the thigh.  

Pertaining to the hip bone.  

Surgical excision of part or all of the ileum.