Category: I

  • Intestinal infantilism

    Infantilism associated with a chronic intestinal disorder, causing poor growth.  

  • Ineffective infant feeding pattern

    Impaired ability to suck or to coordinate the suck-swallow response resulting in inadequate oral nutrition for metabolic needs.  

  • Infant of substance-abusing mother

    All-inclusive term describing a newborn whose birth mother used alcohol, cocaine, opiates, or other potentially hazardous chemicals during pregnancy. These babies are considered to be at high risk for complications during the neonatal period; many also exhibit related long-term disabilities that influence their potential for normal growth and development. Perinatal complications include intrauterine growth retardation,…

  • Infant stimulation

    The use of various techniques to provide neonates and infants identified with or at risk for developmental delay with an environment that has a rich and diverse range of sensations and experiences.  

  • Infanrix

    Diphtheria, tetanus toxoids, and acellular pertussis (Dtap) vaccine, adsorbed.  

  • Infancy

    The very early period of life from birth until age one year. The period of human growth that persists from the time of emergence to roughly a couple of years afterward.  

  • Indwelling

    Inside the body; said of invasive diagnostic or therapeutic devices; pert, to a catheter, drainage tube, or other device that remains inside the body for a prolonged time.  

  • Indulin

    Any one of a group of dyes used in histology.  

  • Inductance

    That property of an electrical circuit by virtue of which a varying current induces an electromotive force in that circuit or a neighboring circuit. The unit of inductance, or self-induction, is the henry. Inductive reactance, also known as bucking, is the characteristic of a circuit that counteracts the flow of electric current in an inductance…

  • Indolaceturia

    The excretion of an increased amount of indoleacetic acid in the urine. This occurs in patients with phenylketonuria and may also be increased by eating serotonin-containing foods (e.g., bananas).