Category: I

Any factor, physical, psychological, or social, that influences a person’s ability to function mentally and emotionally.  

How a person views the self.  

The pressure of the vitreous humor within the eyeball. The pressure generated by the fluid inside the eye can be measured using a tonometer or by feeling with the fingers. Elevated eye pressure leads to glaucoma.  

A lens made of plastic or other synthetic material used to replace an abnormal eye lens, as in the removal of a cataract. An artificial lens implanted inside the eye. Artificial lens implanted into the eye after surgical cataract removal to replace the cataract-damaged natural lens. An artificial lens for the eye, implanted in the…

Hypodermic injection of drugs or fluids into a muscle. An injection of liquid into a muscle, e.g. for a slow release of a drug. Injection into intramuscular tissue, usually the anterior thigh, deltoid, or buttocks. Intramuscular injections are used primarily in the administration of vaccines, immune globulins, long-acting corticosteroids, some antibiotics, some hormones, analgesics, and…

Comparisons of an individual’s levels of performance in different area, e.g., motor skills versus musical skills.  

Within the skin. Inside layers of skin tissue. Within the context of the skin, this refers to a location situated directly beneath the outermost layer of the skin.  

Within the skull. The term applied to structures, diseases, etc. contained in or arising within the head.  

Extravasation of blood within the brain substance. A hemorrhage localized in one area of the brain.  

Within the main portion of the brain, the cerebrum.