Category: I

To enter and spread gradually throughout a part of the body, e.g. the entry of a microorganism that causes disease.  

A condition in which part of the gastrointestinal tract becomes folded down inside the part beneath it, causing an obstruction and strangulation of the folded part. Telescoping of the small intestine, a painful digestive disorder common in young children, causing couc-like symptoms and often requiring surgical correction; also known by the more general term prolapse.…

The swelling of an organ. The condition in which the cornea has imbibed more than its normal amount of water.  

To insert a tube into any organ or part of the body.  

Referring to someone who thinks only about himself or herself.  

To put something into something. To present two people to one another when they have never met before. To start anew way of doing something.  

A muscle lying completely inside the part or segment, especially of a limb, which it moves. A muscle that is contained entirely within the organ or part it acts on. For example, there are intrinsic muscles of the tongue, whose contractions change the shape of the tongue. A muscle that has both its origin and…

A ligament which forms part of the capsule surrounding a joint.  

An X-ray examination of the urinary tract after opaque liquid has been injected intravenously into the body and taken by the blood into the kidneys. Radiological technique for examining the structures of the urinary system to detect tumors, cysts, stones, or structural or functional abnormalities. A contrast medium is injected intravenously, and a series of…

Into a vein.