Category: I

Pertaining to the ileum.  

Extensive bleeding into the skin and organs due to excessive destruction of platelets in the spleen because of autoimmune dysfunction; condition may be mild and transient in children and more recurrent and severe in adults. A blood disease of unknown cause. Symptoms include skin hemorrhage, i.e., inadequate clotting of blood following small cuts, surgery, or…

Form of exercise in which the muscle contracts and there is movement; joint mobility and muscle strength are improved. An active muscle contraction in which the force exerted remains constant and muscle length changes. Exercise that involves the contraction and relaxation of muscles through the full range of their motion. Muscular strength and endurance exercises…

Oral nitroglycerine-like drug; acts as a vasodilator and is used in the treatment of angina.  

Exercises that increase muscle tension by applying pressure against stable resistance, as in pressing hands together; also called isometrics. A system of exercises based on the principle of isometric contraction of muscles. This occurs when the fibers are called upon to contract and do work, but despite an increase in tension do not shorten in…

Process in which antibodies (isoagglutinins) occurring naturally in blood cause clumping of red blood cells of a different group, carrying a corresponding antigen (isoagglutinogen) but of the same species. Agglutination of red blood cells by agglutinins from the blood of another member of the same species. The coagulation of blood resulting from the reaction between…

Impossible to reverse or to be reversed; unchangeable, permanent with no significant chance of improvement, as in irreversible brain damage from a stroke.  

Not able to be returned to normal, as an irreducible hernia. Unable to be replaced in a normal position: applied particularly to a type of hernia. Not capable of being reduced or made smaller, as a fracture or dislocation. Unable to be returned to its original position. A hernia that can’t be pushed back into…

Large, cylindrical device formerly used as a means of providing artificial respiration for victims of disease (especially poliomyelitis). The patient’s body, from the neck down, was placed into the chamber, and vacuum suction used to facilitate breathing. An iron lung was a sizable device used historically to assist with breathing, particularly for those paralyzed by…

Swelling of the iris of the eye.