Category: I

  • Inquiry

    A process of asking questions.  

  • Input planning

    The development of strategies that will provide sufficient resources, both financial and administrative, for reaching the organizational objectives.  

  • Input overload

    Pertains to an excess of stimuli.  

  • Input measure

    A measure of the quality of service based on the number, type, and resources used in the production of the services being measured. Health services are often evaluated by measuring the education and experience of the health provider the reputation and accreditation of the institution, the number of health personnel involved, and the amount of…

  • Input function

    A computer function that enters the data to be analyzed and the type of analysis to be performed.  

  • In pari materia

    On the same subject matter.  

  • Inoculation strategy

    A strategy for the prevention of drug abuse through education, the promotion of healthful behaviors, appropriate decision-making skills, and placing limits on drug intake.  

  • Innominate bone

    The bone forming one half of the pelvic girdle and arising from a fusion of the ilium, the ischium, and the pubis. The hip bone or oscoxae, composed of the ilium, ischium, and pubis. It is united with the sacrum and coccyx by ligaments to form the pelvis. The bone that shapes the front wall…

  • Innominate artery

    The brachiocephalic artery giving rise to the right subclavian and right common carotid arteries. The largest branch of the arch of the aorta; which continues as the right common carotid and right subclavian arteries. Artery arising from the arch of the aorta that divides into the right subclavian artery and the right common carotid artery,…

  • Innominate

    Pertaining to certain structures formed by the fusion of other separate structures. Unnamed. The term originated in medical terminology when, during the initial description of the body’s anatomy, some parts were inadvertently left without names.