| incontinentia pigmenti achromians | Inherited hypopigmented macules in a "marble-cake" pattern, variably associated with epidermal nevi, alopecia, and ocular, skeletal, and neural abnormalities. Synonym: hypomelanosis of Ito. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| incoordination | Want of coordination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action. <physiology> Incoordination of muscular movement, irregularity in movements resulting from inharmonious action of the muscles in consequence of loss of voluntary control over them. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incorporate | 1. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients. Into one consistent mass. "By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, Till holy church incorporate two in one." (Shak) 2. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody. "The idolaters, who worshiped their images as golds, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein." (Bp. Stillingfleet) 3. To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; as, to incorporate copper with silver; used with with and into. 4. To unite intimately; to blend; to assimilate; to combine into a structure or organization, whether material or mental; as, to incorporate provinces into the realm; to incorporate another's ideas into one's work. "The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community." (Addison) 5. To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognised by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc. Origin: Incorporated; Incorporating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incorporation | 1. <chemistry> The union of one substance with another or with others, in a composite mass. 2. <psychology> A primitive unconscious defense mechanism in which aspects of another person are assimilated into the self through a figurative process of symbolic oral ingestion. (13 Nov 1997) |
| incrassate | <botany> Thickened, of a pollen grain, with thickened margins around the apertures. (13 Nov 1997) |
| incrassated | 1. Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated. 2. <botany> Thickened; becoming thicker. 3. <zoology> Swelled out on some particular part, as the antennae of certain insects. Origin: L. Incrassatus, p. P. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incrassative | A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humors. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| increase | 1. To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; opposed to decrease. "The waters increased and bare up the ark." (Gen. Vii. 17) "He must increase, but I must decrease." (John III. 30) "The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase, Even as our days do grow!" (Shak) 2. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific. "Fishes are more numerous of increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn." (Sir M. Hale) 3. <astronomy> To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. <mathematics> Increasing function, a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished. Synonym: To enlarge, extend, multiply, expand, develop, heighten, amplify, raise, enhance, spread, aggravate, magnify, augment, advance. To Increase, Enlarge, Extend. Enlarge implies to make larger or broader in size. Extend marks the progress of enlargement so as to have wider boundaries. Increase denotes enlargement by growth and internal vitality, as in the case of plants. A kingdom is enlarged by the addition of new territories; the mind is enlarged by knowledge. A kingdom is extended when its boundaries are carried to a greater distance from the center. A man's riches, honors, knowledge, etc, are increased by accessions which are made from time to time. Origin: OE. Incresen, encresen, enrescen, OF. Encreistre, fr. L. Increscere; pref. In- in + crescere to grow. See Crescent, and cf. Decrease. 1. Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth. "As if increase of appetite had grown By what if fed on." (Shak) "For things of tender kind for pleasure made Shoot up with swift increase, and sudden are decay'd." (Dryden) 2. That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest. "Take thou no usury of him, or increase." (Lev. Xxv. 36) "Let them not live to taste this land's increase." (Shak) 3. Progeny; issue; offspring. "All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age." (1 Sam. Ii. 33) 4. Generation. "Organs of increase." 5. <astronomy> The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; said of the moon. "Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon." (Bacon) Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the angle of twist increases from the breech to the muzzle. Synonym: Enlargement, extension, growth, development, increment, addition, accession, production. Origin: OE. Encres, encresse. See Increase. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| increased markings emphysema | A term applied to mixed obstructive lung disease in which radiographic findings of emphysema coexist with nonvascular shadows, probably related to bronchial inflammation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| increased skull thickness | <radiology> Generalised, chronic severe anaemia (e.g. Thalassaemia, SSD), cerebral atrophy following shunting of hydrocephalus, Engelmann disease: mainly skull base, hyperparathyroidism, acromegaly, osteopetrosis, chronic dilantin ingestion focal, meningioma, fibrous dysplasia, Dyke-Davidoff syndrome, hyperostosis frontalis interna, metastases (12 Dec 1998) |
| increment | 1. The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. "The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies." (Woodward) "A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself." (Coleridge) 2. Matter added; increase; produce; production; opposed to decrement. "Large increment." 3. <mathematics> The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased. 4. An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, . . . Think on these things." (Phil. Iv. <mathematics> 8) Infinitesimal increment, a calculus founded on the properties of the successive values of variable quantities and their differences or increments. It differs from the method of fluxions in treating these differences as finite, instead of infinitely small, and is equivalent to the calculus of finite differences. Origin: L. Incrementum: cf. F. Increment. See Increase. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incremental | <biology> Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incremental energy costs | The cost of producing and transporting the next available unit of electrical energy. Short run incremental costs (SRIC) include only incremental operating costs. Long run incremental costs (LRIC) include the capital cost of new resources or capital equipment. (05 Dec 1998) |
| incremental lines | In the enamel, calcification line's of Retzius, in the dentin, imbrication or incremental line's of von Ebner, and Owen's line's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incremental lines of von Ebner | Incremental line's in the dentin of the tooth that reflect variations in mineralization during dentin formation; the distance between the line's corresponds to the daily rate of dentin formation. Synonym: incremental lines of von Ebner. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| INC | add as part of something else |
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| INC | consider as part of something |
| INC | allow participation in or the right to be part of |
| INC | have as a part, be made up out of |
| INC | enclosed in the same envelope or package |
| INC | the act of including |
| INC | any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases) |
| INC | the relation of comprising something |
| INC | the state of being included |
| INC | any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases) |
| INC | a rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults |
| INC | including much or everything |