| inaction | Inactivity, rest, or lack of response to a stimulus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| inactivate | To destroy the biological activity or the effects of an agent or substance, as the activity of complement is destroyed when serum is heated. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inactivated polio vaccine | <pharmacology, virology> An inactivated vaccination, administered by injection to children for protection against the polio virus. Typically given at 2, 4 and 15 months. A final vaccine is recommended at 4-6 years. (27 Sep 1997) |
| inactivated poliovirus vaccine | Inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), an aqueous suspension of inactivated strains of poliomyelitis virus (types 1, 2, and 3) used by injection; has largely been replaced by the oral vaccine. See: Salk vaccine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inactivated serum | <immunology> Serum that has been heated 50캜 for 30 minutes to destroy the lytic activity of complement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inactivation | <neurology, physiology> For example of voltage gated sodium channels: process by which sodium channels that have been activated or opened by depolarisation subsequently close during the depolarisation. Distinguished from activation by its slower kinetics. (18 Nov 1997) |
| inactive | Not active. (18 Nov 1997) |
| inactive mutant | A mutant that is not phenotypically manifest. Synonym: silent mutant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inactive repressor | A repressor that cannot combine with an operator gene until it has combined with a corepressor (usually a product of a protein pathway); after activation, the repressor arrests production of the proteins controlled by the operator gene; a homeostatic mechanism for regulation of repressible enzyme systems. Synonym: aporepressor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inactive tuberculosis | A scar or a calcified, fibrous, or caseous nodule in the lung pleura, lymph node, or other organ, resulting from previous tuberculosis that has regressed; reactivation is possible. Synonym: arrested tuberculosis, inactive tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inactose | <chemistry> A variety of sugar, found in certain plants. It is optically inactive. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| inadequate | 1. Not adequate of sufficient, inept or unsuitable. 2. Psychiatry, ineffectual in response to emotional, social, intellectual and physical demands in the absence of any obvious mental or physical deficiency. (18 Nov 1997) |
| inadequate personality | A personality disorder, characterised by personal and social ineptness plus emotional and physical instability, which renders the individual unable to cope with the normal vicissitudes of life. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inadequate stimulus | A stimulus too weak to evoke a response. Synonym: subliminal stimulus, subthreshold stimulus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inadherent | 1. Not adhering. 2. <botany> Free; not connected with the other organs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |