Category: I

Affecting or peculiar to the ventricles of the heart. The term is most often used to describe the very slow beat of the ventricles under the influence of their own natural subsidiary pacemaker. To the cardiac ventricle alone when dissociated from the atrium. A heart rhythm that arises in the ventricle is an idioventricular rhythm.…

A condition which develops without any known cause.  

Epilepsy not caused by a brain disorder, beginning during childhood or adolescence. The term “idiopathic epilepsy” is used to describe a form of epilepsy that has no known physical cause, such as brain injury.  

A label attached to the wrist of a newborn baby or patient in hospital, so that he or she can be identified.  

The act or process of imagining or forming thoughts and ideas. Process of forming ideas, images, impressions, or concepts. The process of thinking; the formation of ideas. Ideation is impaired in dementias, depression, organic brain diseases, and some drug overdoses but speeds up in the early stage of some types of mild intoxication. It is…

Jaundice associated with erythroblastosis fetalis.  

A thick dark red liquid which is a mild antiseptic and analgesic, used in the treatment of skin diseases.  

A cold compress made of lumps of ice wrapped in a cloth or put in a special bag and held against an injured part of the body to reduce pain or swelling. A flexible, watertight bag with a sealable opening large enough to permit ice cubes or chipped ice to be added. It is used…

Any condition caused by the actions of doctors or other healthcare professionals. Any injury or illness that occurs as a result of medical care. Some examples: chemotherapy used to treat cancer may cause nausea, vomiting, hair loss, or depressed white blood cell counts. The use of a Foley catheter for incontinence can create a urinary…

A USFHS official adaptation of a system for classifying diseases and operations for the purpose of indexing hospital records developed by the World Health Organization. Diseases are grouped according to the problems they present. For example, the major infective and parasitic diseases are listed in one section and all malignant neoplasms in another section. A…