| inclining | <botany> Same as Inclined. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| inclinnation | 1. The act of inclining, or state of being inclined; a leaning; as, an inclination of the head. 2. A direction or tendency from the true vertical or horizontal direction; as, the inclination of a column, or of a road bed. 3. A tendency towards another body or point 4. <geometry> The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23 deg 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or will; propensity; a disposition more favorable to one thing than to another; favor; desire; love. "A mere inclination to a thing is not properly a willing of that thing." (South) "How dost thou find the inclination of the people?" (Shak) 6. A person or thing loved or admired. 7. <pharmacology> Decantation, or tipping for pouring. Inclination compass, an inclinometer. <astronomy> Inclination of an orbit, the angle which the orbit makes the ecliptic. Inclination of the needle. See Dip of the needle, under Dip. Synonym: Bent, tendency, proneness, bias, proclivity, propensity, prepossession, predilection, attachment, desire, affection, love. See Bent, and cf. Disposition. Origin: L. Inclinatio: cf. F. Inclination. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| inclinnometer | <physics> An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon. Synonym: inclination compass, and dip circle. Origin: Incline. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| inclinometer | An obsolete instrument for determining the direction of the ocular axes in astigmatism. Origin: L. In-clino, to incline, + G. Metron, measure (05 Mar 2000) |
| included | Enclosed, not protruding. (09 Oct 1997) |
| inclusa | <marine biology> A tribe of bivalve mollusks, characterised by the closed state of the mantle which envelops the body. The ship borer (Teredo navalis) is an example. Origin: NL, fr. L. Inclusus, p. P. Of includere to shut in. (19 Mar 1998) |
| inclusion | 1. The act of including, or the state of being included; limitation; restriction; as, the lines of inclusion of his policy. 2. <chemical> A foreign substance, either liquid or solid, usually of minute size, inclosed in the mass of a mineral. Origin: L. Inclusio: cf. F. Inclusion. See Include. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| inclusion blennorrhoea | A neonatal conjunctivitis caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inclusion bodies | <cell biology> Nuclear or cytoplasmic structures with characteristic staining properties, usually found at the site of virus multiplication. Semi crystalline arrays of virions, capsids or other viral components. (13 Nov 1997) |
| inclusion bodies, viral | An area showing altered staining behaviour in the nucleus or cytoplasm of a virus-infected cell. Some inclusion bodies represent "virus factories" in which viral nucleic acid or protein is being synthesised; others are merely artifacts of fixation and staining. One example, negri bodies, are found in the cytoplasm or processes of nerve cells in animals that have died from rabies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| inclusion body disease | <disease> An illness in newborns caused by viral infection, symptoms includefever, cellular enlargement, microscopically-visible clumps of viralparticles or proteins in the cytoplasm and nuclei of affected cells, enlargementof the spleen and liver. Long-term effects of the disease may includemental retardation. (09 Oct 1997) |
| inclusion body encephalitis | <neurology> Chronic progressive illness seen in children a few years after measles infection and involving demyelination of the cerebral cortex. Virus apparently persists in brain cells: usually considered a slow virus disease. (18 Nov 1997) |
| inclusion body myositis | <radiology> Common form of inflamatory myopathy, most common in the elderly, equal sex incidence, sporadic idiopathic disease (very rarely familial), misdiagnosed as steroid-resistant polymyositis symptoms, presents as a painless slowly progressive proximal myopathy, may cause dysphagia, mild to moderate muscle wasting diagnosis, serum creatine kinase levels usually normal or only slightly elevated, EMG may show non-specific myopathic features, diagnosis on muscle biopsy, inclusion bodies seen in rimmed vacuoles in skeletal muscle fibres treatment, steroids and immunosuppression generally ineffective, rare patients reported who have made a response to treatment pathogenesis, unknown, ubiquitin, prion protein, tau protein found in inclusions, abnormal mitchondria seen in some case (12 Dec 1998) |
| inclusion body rhinitis | A respiratory disease of pigs caused by the cytomegalovirus porcine herpesvirus 2 and characterised by rhinitis and conjunctivitis in young pigs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inclusion cell | i cell |