| insufficient | 1. Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality. "Insufficient for His praise." 2. Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office. Synonym: Inadequate, scanty, incommensurate, unequal, unfit, incompetent, incapable, inefficient. Origin: L. Insufficiens, -entis. See In- not, and Sufficient. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| insufflate | May involve injection of carbon dioxide into the peritoneum to achieve pneumoperitoneum during laparoscopy and laparoscopic surgery. Origin: L. In-sufflo, to blow on or into (05 Mar 2000) |
| insufflation | <medicine> The act of breathing on or into anything; especially: The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body. Origin: L. Insuffatio: cf. F. Insuffation. See In- in, and Sufflation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| insufflation anaesthesia | Maintenance of inhalation anaesthesia by delivery of anaesthetic gases or vapors directly to the airway of a spontaneously breathing patient. (05 Mar 2000) |
| insufflator | An instrument used in insufflation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| insula | 1. An oval region of the cerebral cortex overlying the extreme capsule, lateral to the lenticular nucleus, buried in the depth of the fissura lateralis cerebri (sylvian fissure). Synonym: insular area, insular cortex, island of Reil. Synonym: island. 3. Any circumscribed body or patch on the skin. Origin: L. Island (05 Mar 2000) |
| insular | Relating to any insula, especially the island of Reil. (05 Mar 2000) |
| insular area | 1. An oval region of the cerebral cortex overlying the extreme capsule, lateral to the lenticular nucleus, buried in the depth of the fissura lateralis cerebri (sylvian fissure). Synonym: insular area, insular cortex, island of Reil. Synonym: island. 3. Any circumscribed body or patch on the skin. Origin: L. Island (05 Mar 2000) |
| insular arteries | Branches from the insular part of the middle cerebral artery distributed to the cortex of the insula. Synonym: arteriae insulares. (05 Mar 2000) |
| insular cortex | 1. An oval region of the cerebral cortex overlying the extreme capsule, lateral to the lenticular nucleus, buried in the depth of the fissura lateralis cerebri (sylvian fissure). Synonym: insular area, insular cortex, island of Reil. Synonym: island. 3. Any circumscribed body or patch on the skin. Origin: L. Island (05 Mar 2000) |
| insular gyri | The short gyri of insula and long gyrus of insula. Synonym: gyri insulae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| insular hypothesis | An obsolete theory of the origin of diabetes mellitus from destruction or loss of function of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| insular part | insular part |
| insular part of middle cerebral artery | insular part of middle cerebral artery |
| insular sclerosis | <neurology> Neurodegenerative disease characterised by the gradual accumulation of focal plaques of demyelination particularly in the periventricular areas of the brain. Peripheral nerves are not affected. Onset usually in 3rd or 4th decade with intermittent progression over an extended period. Cause still uncertain. (18 Nov 1997) |
Synonyms : IGF-2, Insulin Like Growth Factor II, Insulin-Like Somatomedin Peptide II, Multiplication-Stimulating Factor, Somatomedin A, Factor, Multiplication-Stimulating, Insulin Like Somatomedin Peptide II, Multiplication Stimulating Activity
Synonyms : Pancreatic B Cells, B Cell, Pancreatic, B Cells, Pancreatic, Cell, Insulin-Secreting, Cells, Insulin-Secreting, Insulin Secreting Cells, Insulin-Secreting Cell, Pancreatic B Cell, Pancreatic beta Cell, beta Cell, Pancreatic
Synonyms : Adenoma, beta Cell, Adenomas, beta-Cell, Insulinomas, Insulomas, Tumor, beta-Cell, Tumors, beta-Cell, beta Cell Tumor, beta-Cell Adenoma, beta-Cell Adenomas, beta-Cell Tumors
Synonyms : Insulin Protease, Insulin Proteinase, Insulin-Degrading Enzyme, Enzyme, Insulin-Degrading, Insulin Degrading Enzyme, Protease, Insulin, Proteinase, Insulin
Synonyms : Insurances
| insular |
relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture" suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"
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| insomnia |
an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness
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| insertion |
interpolation: a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted; "with the help of his friend's interpolations his story was eventually told"; "with many insertions in the margins" the act of putting one thing into another
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| insulation |
the state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel" insulating material: a material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity
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| insomniac |
someone who cannot sleep experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare
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| INS | a clinch with the end of the line inside the loop |
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| INS | true confidential information |
| INS | some transgression committed with the assistance of someone trusted by the victim |
| INS | a loop consisting of a climb followed by inverted flight followed by a dive that returns to horizontal flight |
| INS | with the inside facing outward |
| INS | thoroughly |
| INS | a favorable position in a competition |
| INS | the inner side of a curved racecourse |
| INS | with the inside surface on the outside |
| INS | an officer of a corporation or others who have access to private information about the corporation's operations |
| INS | important information about the plans or condition of a corporation that has not been released to the public |
| INS | buying or selling corporate stock by a corporate officer or other insider |