| FIUO | for internal use only |
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| GIM | general internal medicine; gonadotropin-inhibiting material |
| IAC | image analysis cytometry; ineffective airway clearance; internal auditory canal; interposed abdomina... |
| IAD | inactivating dose; instructional advance directive; internal absorbed dose |
| IAM | Institute of Applied Microbiology [Japan]; Institute of Aviation Medicine; internal auditory meatus |
| angle of aperture | <ophthalmology, optics> The angle formed by lines drawn from the ends of the diameter of a lens to its point of focus. See: angular aperture. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| angle of convergence | <optics> The angle that the visual axis makes with the median line when a near object is viewed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angle of declination | An obsolete term for angle of anteversion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angle of depression | <orthopaedics> The angle formed by the meeting of a line drawn through the shaft of the femur with one passing through the long axis of the femoral neck; normally it is about 127 |
| angle of deviation | <optics> In a prism, the sum of the angle's of incidence and emergence minus the apical angle of a prism, in optics, angle of refraction, in strabismus, angle of anomaly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angle of eccentricity | <ophthalmology> In strabismus, the angle between the line of fixation and the line of normal foveal fixation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angle of emergence | <optics> The angle formed by a light ray emerging from the second surface of a prism and a line parallel to the incident ray. Compare: angle of deviation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angle of femoral torsion | angle of femoral torsion |
| angle of Fuchs | <ophthalmology> A crevice between the ciliary and pupillary zones of the iris formed by atrophy of superficial layers of the iris in the pupillary zone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angle of incidence | <optics> The angle that a ray entering a refracting medium makes with a line drawn perpendicular to the surface of this medium, the angle that a ray striking a reflecting surface makes with a line perpendicular to this surface. Synonym: incident angle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angle of inclination | <orthopaedics> The angle formed by the meeting of a line drawn through the shaft of the femur with one passing through the long axis of the femoral neck; normally it is about 127 |
| angle of iris | The acute angle between the iris and the cornea at the periphery of the anterior chamber of the eye. Synonym: angulus iridocornealis, angle of iris, angulus iridis, filtration angle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angle of jaw | <anatomy> The angle formed by the lower margin of the body and the posterior margin of the ramus of the mandible. Synonym: angulus mandibulae, angle of jaw. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angle of mandible | <anatomy> The angle formed by the lower margin of the body and the posterior margin of the ramus of the mandible. Synonym: angulus mandibulae, angle of jaw. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angle of mouth | <anatomy> The lateral limit of the oral fissure. See: labial commissure. Synonym: angulus oris. (05 Mar 2000) |