| innidiation | The growth and multiplication of abnormal cells in another location to which they have been transported by means of lymph or the blood stream, or both. See: metastasis. Synonym: colonization, indenization. Origin: L. In, in, + nidus, nest (05 Mar 2000) |
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| innitency | A leaning; pressure; weight. Origin: L. Inniti, p.p. Innixus, to lean upon; pref. In- in, on + niti to lean. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| innocence | 1. The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness. 2. The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness. "The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails." (Shak) "Banished from man's life his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence!" (Milton) 3. The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown. 4. Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness. Synonym: Harmlessness, innocuousness, blamelessness, purity, sinlessness, guiltlessness. Origin: F. Innocence, L. Innocentia. See Innocent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| innocent | 1. An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin. 2. An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot. "In Scotland a natural fool was called an innocent." (Sir W. Scott) Innocents' day, Childermas day. 1. Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy. "The spear Sung innocent,and spent its force in air." (Pope) 2. Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright. "To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb." (Shak) "I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood." (Matt. Xxvii. 4) "The aidless,innocent lady, his wished prey." (Milton) 3. Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged. "Innocent from the great transgression." (Ps. Xix. 13) 4. Simple; artless; foolish. 5. Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade. 6. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation. Innocent party,a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality. Synonym: Harmless, innoxious, innoffensive, guiltless, spotless, immaculate, pure, unblamable, blameless, faultless, guileless, upright. Origin: F.innocent, L. Innocens, -entis; pref. In- not + nocens, p.pr. Of nocere to harm, hurt. See Noxious. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| innocent bystander cell | The destruction of a cell by an immune process even though that cell was not directly targeted. (05 Mar 2000) |
| innocent murmur | A cardiac murmur not associated with a significant heart lesion. Synonym: innocent murmur, inorganic murmur. (05 Mar 2000) |
| innocent tumour | <oncology> A nonmalignant clone of neoplastic cells that does not invade locally or spread to other parts of the body (metastasise), having lost growth control but not positional control. Usually surrounded by a fibrous capsule of compressed tissue. (29 Sep 1997) |
| innocuous | Harmless. Synonym: innoxious. Origin: L. Innocuus (05 Mar 2000) |
| innominatal | Relating to the hip bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| innominate | 1. Having no name; unnamed; as, an innominate person or place. 2. <anatomy> A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava. Innominate bone, in the Roman law, contracts without a specific name. Origin: L. Innominatus; pref. In- not + nominare to name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| innominate artery | <anatomy, artery> An obsolete term for brachiocephalic trunk. (05 Mar 2000) |
| innominate bone | A large flat bone formed by the fusion of the ilium, ischium, and pubis (in the adult), constituting the lateral half of the pelvis; it articulates with its fellow anteriorly, with the sacrum posteriorly, and with the femur laterally. Synonym: os coxae, coxa, coxal bone, innominate bone, os innominatum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| innominate cardiac veins | The small superficial vein's of the heart. Synonym: Vieussens' veins. (05 Mar 2000) |
| innominate fossa | A shallow depression between the false vocal cord and the aryepiglottic fold on either side. Synonym: fossa innominata. (05 Mar 2000) |
| innominate substance | The region of the forebrain that lies ventral to the anterior half or so of the lentiform nucleus, extending in the frontal plane from the lateral preopticohypothalamic zone laterally over the optic tract to the amygdala (amygdaloid body); rostrally it tapers off over the dorsal border of the olfactory tubercle, caudally it ends where the internal capsule reaches the surface to form the cerebral peduncle or pes pedunculi. Notable among its polymorphic cell population is the large-celled basal nucleus of Meynert. These magnocellular elements within the substantia i. Are present in the medial septum and the diagonal band of Broca, but occur in largest numbers ventral to the globus pallidus. Histochemical evidence indicates that magnocellular elements distribute cholinergic fibres widely in the cerebral cortex and that these cells undergo selective degeneration in Alzheimer's disease. Synonym: substantia innominata. (05 Mar 2000) |