| incomplete atrioventricular dissociation | A-V dissociation interrupted by ventricular captures. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| incomplete cleavage | Incomplete separation of the blastomeres, with the divisions being limited to the nonyolked portion of the egg. Synonym: incomplete cleavage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incomplete conjoined twins | Conjoined twin's, the two components of which equal one another but are less than entire individuals. Monoamniotic twins, twin's within a common amnion; such twin's are monovular in origin and may be conjoined. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incomplete disinfectant | A disinfectant that kills only the vegetative forms, leaving the spores uninjured. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incomplete dominance | <genetics> Two alleles of a gene which result in distinctly different phenotypes, but when they are both inherited together in an individual (one from the mother and one from the father - called heterozygosity), the individual ends up with a blend of the two phenotypes. For example: if one allele is for red hair and the other allele is for blue hair, then the individual will have purple hair. (This is in contrast to codominance, where the individual would inherit patches of blue and patches of red hair). (13 Nov 1997) |
| incomplete fistula | A fistula that ends in a cul-de-sac, being open at one extremity only. Synonym: incomplete fistula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incomplete foot presentation | See: breech presentation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incomplete fracture | A fracture in which the line of fracture does not include the entire bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incomplete hemianopia | Hemianopsia involving less than half the visual field of each eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incomplete metamorphosis | The development of a nymph into the imago which in many respects resembles the former; characteristic of more primitive insect orders, such as Heteroptera (true bugs), Orthoptera (locusts, grasshoppers), and Blatterria (roaches). Synonym: heterometabolous metamorphosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incomplete tetanus | Tetanus in which each stimulus causes a contraction to be initiated when the muscle has only partly relaxed from the previous contraction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incompossible | Not capable of joint existence; incompatible; inconsistent. "Ambition and faith . . . Are . . . Incompossible." (Jer. Taylor) Incompossibil"ity. Origin: Pref. In- not + compossible: cf. F. Incompossible. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incompressibility | The quality of being incompressible, or incapable of reduction in volume by pressure; formerly supposed to be a property of liquids. "The incompressibility of water is not absolute." (Rees) Origin: Cf. F. Incompressibilite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incompressible | Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. Incompress"ibleness. Origin: Pref. In- not + compressible: cf. F. Incompressible. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| inconceivable | Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular motion. "It is inconceivable to me that a spiritual substance should represent an extended figure." (Locke) Inconceiv"ableness, Inconceiv"ably, "The inconceivableness of a quality existing without any subject to possess it." (A. Tucker) Origin: Pref. In- not + conceivable: cf. F. Inconcevable. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |