| 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) |