Category: I

  • Incasement

    Becoming surrounded by a structure or wall.  

  • Inassimilable

    Not capable of being used by the body for nutrition. Pertains to materials that the body cannot absorb or utilize as nourishment.  

  • Inappetence

    A lack of craving or desire, especially for food.  

  • Inactivate

    To render inactive, especially the alteration or destruction of an enzyme system or a biologically active agent such as a microorganism or antigen.  

  • Inaction

    Failure of or decreased response to a stimulus.  

  • Inaccuracy

    Inexactness as a result of measurement error.  

  • Imputed negligence

    The liability of the manager, owner, or leader of an enterprise for faulty behavior or injuries committed by his or her employees or subordinates.  

  • Impulsion

    A persistent psychic drive to act that is not relieved until the action is taken. Clear consciousness of the proposed act followed by an agonizing struggle, defeat, and sense of relief following the act are characteristics of impulsions, obsessions, and inhibitions. Impulsions may include folie du doute or doubting mania (e.g., repeatedly checking to determine…

  • Inhibitory impulse

    A nerve signal that diminishes the activity of the target it acts upon.    

  • Improvised explosive device

    Military jargon for a detonatable bomb or land mine.