Category: I

  • Indemnity benefits

    Under health insurance policies, benefits in the form of cash payments rather than services. The indemnity insurance contract usually defines the maximum amounts which will be paid for the covered services. In most cases, after the provider of service has billed the patient in the usual way, the insured person submits to the insurance company…

  • Incur

    In insurance, to become liable for a loss, claim or expense. Cases or losses incurred are those occurring within a fixed period for which an insurance plan becomes liable whether or not reported, adjusted and paid.  

  • Income

    The return, usually measured in money, from one’s business, labor, or capital income. As one example of the complexity of defining income in operational terms the I.R.S. 1040 should be considered as a specific definition of income. Welfare programs attempt to distinguish earned income (wages or net earnings from employment) and unearned income (support or…

  • Impoundment

    In the Federal budget, any executive branch action or inaction that precludes the obligation or expenditure of budget authority provided by the Congress. An impoundment resolution is a resolution of the House of Representatives or the Senate which expresses its disapproval of a proposed deferral of budget authority set forth in a special message ordinarily…

  • Intra vitam

    During life.  

  • Intraventricular

    Within a ventricle of heart or brain. Inside or placed into a ventricle in the heart or the brain. Inside a ventricle, which is one of the heart’s two lower chambers. The term can also denote the brain’s ventricles, which are spaces filled with cerebrospinal fluid.  

  • Intratympanic

    Within the middle ear. Inside the tympanic cavity, which is the space of the middle ear located between the eardrum externally and the hearing organ internally. This cavity is connected to the Eustachian tube that extends from the back of the nose.  

  • Intratubular

    Within a very small tube.  

  • Intratubal

    Within a tube.  

  • Intratonsillan

    Within a tonsil.