Category: I

The inability to form a mental picture; lack of perception.  

Not controlled by one’s own will; involuntary; obligatory.  

In medicine, providing unbiased and nonjudgmental treatment.  

A foreign body that penetrates the skin and remains embedded in tissue. Such objects should be stabilized to prevent movement and allowed to remain in place while the patient is transported to receive professional care. EMS providers are taught that an impaled object to the cheek may be removed if it is causing a compromise…

An examination of a person’s fitness for work or performance of specific activities.  

Abnormal glucose metabolism demonstrated by the presence of a fasting blood sugar that is greater than 100 mg/dl.  

The recognition and destruction of malignant cells by immune cells that travel through and scan the body for foreign or mutant antigens.  

The age-associated decline of the immune system and host defense mechanisms. Elderly individuals frequently have a decline in cell-mediated immunity and secondary declines in humoral immunity. The clinician caring for an older patient can assume that the individual has defective host defenses, is at greater risk for developing an infectious disease, and has an increased…

The enhanced survival of cells or organisms that have favorable cell surface markers. The antigens allow the cells organisms to escape destruction by humoral or cell-mediated immunity.  

The imaging of specific tissues by means of their binding to radioactively labeled monoclonal antibodies; used to detect metastatic cancer. The release of radiation from the antibodies is detected and quantified.