Category: I

  • Independent living center

    A facility in the community that coordinates services for the disabled, including counseling, training, rehabilitation, assistance with devices, and respite care.  

  • Independent living

    In rehabilitation, thriving on one’s own; living autonomously and actively in one’s own home and community.  

  • Indemnify

    To protect the interests of another party against losses.  

  • Incyclophoria

    Median or negative cyclophoria in which the affected eye, when covered, turns inward about its anteroposterior axis. Cyclotropia in which the eye turns inward toward the nose even when both eyes are open.  

  • Increment

    A n increase or addition in number, size, or extent; an enlargement.  

  • Incoordinate uterine contraction

    An abnormality of the first stage of labor in which uterine contractions are too weak or too ineffective to dilate the cervix,  

  • Incoordinate

    Not able to make coordinated muscular movements.  

  • In control

    Within an acceptable predetermined range. The limits that define the acceptable range may be set using one or more criteria, depending on the intent. A typical analytical “in-control” limit is based on the calculation of the dispersion of the data measured as standard deviation (SD). Subsequent multiplication of the SD by 2 and then by…

  • Intermittent incontinence

    Loss of control of the bladder upon sudden pressure or movement.  

  • Inconsolable

    Said of an infant or child who is extremely irritable and cannot be comforted despite its parents’ best efforts. In pediatrics inconsolability is a clinical indicator of severe illness.