Category: I

  • Intermittent duty

    As applied to emergency situations, communications equipment that is not operational continuously, continuous duty.  

  • Intermediate unit

    A division of elementary school comprised of grades 4-6.  

  • Intermediate school

    A synonym for middle school. Alternate term for middle school; the term intermediate is sometimes used to refer to the upper elementary grades, 4 to 6.  

  • Intermediate objectives

    Targets to be achieved within 1-5 years.  

  • Intermediate level of health

    Health status measured in terms of temporary, curable conditions. Persons falling within this level of health have contracted or developed a disease condition that interferes with functioning ability, but with proper treatment will return to the primary level of health secondary level of health.  

  • Intermediate level

    Middle school.  

  • Intermediate inheritance

    An alternative to dominance in which the heterozygotes are different from both homozygotes.  

  • Intermediate host

    A mode of disease transmission where the infectious agents must spend a part of their life cycle in a host between the infected person (source of the agent) and the new host (to become infected). For example, the malaria plasmodium must spend a part of its life cycle in the body of the anopheles mosquito…

  • Intermediate grades

    The grades in elementary school normally including grades 4, 5, and 6.  

  • Intermediate care facility

    Provides health-related care and services to persons who do not require the degree of care or treatment normally provided by a hospital or skilled treatment facility but who do require health-related institutional care beyond the level of room and board. Eligible for Medicaid reimbursement, domiciliary care facility. An institution recognized under the Medicaid program which…