Category: I

  • Independent

    Not controlled by someone or something else.  

  • Incoordination

    A situation in which the muscles in various parts of the body do not act together, making it impossible to carry out some actions. Inability to produce controlled, harmonious muscular movement. An impairment in the performance of precise rapid movements. These are dependent upon the normal function of the whole nervous system, and incoordination may…

  • Incontinent

    Unable to control the discharge of urine or faeces. Inability to voluntarily control bowel movements or bladder function.  

  • Incontinence pad

    A pad of material to absorb urine.  

  • Incomplete fracture

    A fracture that does not go all the way through a bone. A fracture in which the line of fracture does not include the whole bone.  

  • Incomplete abortion

    An abortion where part of the contents of the uterus is not expelled. Termination of pregnancy in which some of the products of conception are not expelled but rather are retained in the uterus. It usually leads to heavy bleeding, is occasionally complicated by infection, and almost always requires surgical intervention. Also called partial abortion.…

  • Incompatible blood

    Blood from a donor that does not match the blood of the person receiving the transfusion.  

  • Incompatible

    Referring to something which does not go together with something else. Referring to drugs which must not be used together because they undergo chemical change and the therapeutic effect is lost or changed to something undesirable. Referring to tissue which is genetically different from other tissue, making it impossible to transplant into that tissue. Typically,…

  • Incompatibility

    The fact of being incompatible. Condition in which two substances (organisms, tissues, drugs) cannot exist together (e.g., one drug cancels or alters the therapeutic effect of another drug given at the same time). A state in which two substances cannot be mixed without one of them being changed or destroyed. The use of two or…

  • Incoherent

    Not able to speak in a way which makes sense. Disordered; lacking logical connection or orderly continuity; unable to express oneself in an intelligible manner.