Category: I

(Of health services) provided whether or not someone has a disability or special needs.  

Very small particles found in cells infected by a virus. Large distinctive structures which appear in the nucleus, the cytoplasm, or in both these areas of body cells which are the site of virus multiplication. Inclusion bodies are usually acidophilic and in some cases so characteristic that the identity of the infecting virus is deduced…

A hernia which breaks through the abdominal wall at a place where a surgical incision was made during an operation. Protrusion of the bowel or abdominal structures occurring along the suture line of a prior surgical incision. A hernia through a surgical scar. An incisional hernia refers to a condition where the intestine protrudes through…

Referring to an incision.  

A wound with clean edges, caused by a sharp knife or razor. A wound resulting from a cutting tool.  

Referring to a hernia which cannot be corrected by physical manipulation. Confined or constricted so as to be immovable: applied particularly to a type of hernia. Imprisoned, constricted, and confined of blood flow, as an irreducible hernia. Trapped, stuck, bound, unable to break free. The phrase is commonly used to refer to a hernia that…

Not able to act or work. Being made incapable of some function, act or strength. This may be purely physical or intellectual or both.  

Congenital, which is in the body from birth. Present at birth, either as a result of heredity or acquired during intrauterine life (e.g., certain developmental abnormalities). Innate or inherent, said of characteristics both structural and functional that are inherited or acquired during uterine development.  

A Latin phrase meaning ‘at the onset of death’.  

A lack of activity.