| insalivation | <physiology> The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| insalubrious | Unwholesome; unhealthful; usually in reference to climate. Origin: L. In-salubris, unwholesome (05 Mar 2000) |
| insane | 1. Of unsound mind; severely mentally impaired; deranged; crazy. 2. Relating to insanity. Origin: L. In-neg. + sanus, sound, sane (05 Mar 2000) |
| insanitary | Injurious to health, usually in reference to an unclean or contaminated environment. Synonym: unsanitary. Origin: L. In-neg. + sanus, sound (05 Mar 2000) |
| insanity | 1. The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy. "All power of fancy overreason is a degree of insanity." (Johnson) "Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure." (Cowper) 2. Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility. Synonym: Insanity, Lunacy, Madness, Derangement, Aliention, Aberration, Mania, Delirium, Frenzy, Monomania, Dementia. Insanity is the generic term for all such diseases; lunacy has now an equal extent of meaning, though once used to denote periodical insanity; madness has the same extent, though originally referring to the rage created by the disease; derangement, alienation, are popular terms for insanity; delirium, mania, and frenzy denote excited states of the disease; dementia denotes the loss of mental power by this means; monomania is insanity upon a single subject. Origin: L. Insanitas unsoundness; cf. Insania insanity, F. Insanite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| insanity defense | A legal concept that a person cannot be convicted of a crime if he lacked criminal responsibility by reason of insanity, which term is defined as a matter of law. (12 Dec 1998) |
| insatiate | Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst. "The insatiate greediness of his desires." (Shak) "And still insatiate, thirsting still for blood." (Hook) Origin: L. Insatiatus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| inscient | Having knowledge or insight; intelligent. "Gaze on, with inscient vision, toward the sun." (Mrs. Browning) Origin: Pref. In- in + L. Sciens knowing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| inscribable | Capable of being inscribed, used specif. <mathematics> Of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| inscribe | 1. To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. "Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone." (Pope) 2. To mark with letters, charakters, or words. "O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone." (Pope) 3. To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend. 4. To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory. 5. <geometry> To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries. A line is inscribed in a circle, or in a sphere, when its two ends are in the circumference of the circle, or in the surface of the sphere. A triangle is inscribed in another triangle, when the three angles of the former are severally on the three sides of the latter. A circle is inscribed in a polygon, when it touches each side of the polygon. A sphere is inscribed in a polyhedron, when the sphere touches each boundary plane of the polyhedron. The latter figure in each case is circumscribed about the former. Origin: L. Inscribere. See 1st In-, and Scribe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| inscriptio | Synonym: inscription. Origin: L. Fr. In-scribo, pp. -scriptus, to write on (05 Mar 2000) |
| inscriptio tendinea | tendinous intersection |
| inscription | 1. The act or process of inscribing. 2. That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc. 3. <anatomy> A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle. 4. An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage. Origin: L. Inscriptio, fr.inscribere, inscriptum, to inscribe: cf. F. Inscription. See Inscribe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| inscrutable | Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event. "'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable." (Beau. & Fl) "Waiving a question so inscrutable as this." (De Quincey) Origin: L. Inscrutabilis: cf. F. Inscrutable. See In- not, and Scrutiny. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| insect | 1. <zoology> One of the Insecta; especially, one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta. The hexapod insects pass through three stages during their growth, viz, the larva, pupa, and imago or adult, but in some of the orders the larva differs little from the imago, except in lacking wings, and the active pupa is very much like the larva, except in having rudiments of wings. In the higher orders, the larva is usually a grub, maggot, or caterpillar, totally unlike the adult, while the pupa is very different from both larva and imago and is inactive, taking no food. 2. <zoology> Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion. 3. <zoology> Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates. 4. Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing. Insect powder,a powder used for the extermination of insects; especially, the powdered flowers of certain species of Pyrethrum, a genus now merged in Chrysanthemum. Synonym: Persian powder. Origin: F.insecte, L. Insectum, fr. Insectus, p.p. Of insecare to cut in. See Section. The name was originally given to certain small animals, whose bodies appear cut in, or almost divided. Cf. Entomology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |