| irregular nystagmus | A nystagmus in which the movements of the two eyes are dissimilar in direction, amplitude, and periodicity. Synonym: dysjunctive nystagmus, incongruent nystagmus, irregular nystagmus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| irregular pulse | Variation in rate of impulses in an artery due to cardiac arrhythmia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| irregular uterine lumen | <radiology> Synechiae, DES, post-op, neoplasm, normal variant, intravasation, endometrial hyperplasia, adenomyosis, embedded IUD, TB, uterine fistula, Gartner duct remnant (12 Dec 1998) |
| irrelative | Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. Irrel"atively, Irrelative chords, those having no common tone. <biology> Irrelative repetition, the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence or connection. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| irremediable | Not to be remedied, corrected, or redressed; incurable; as, an irremediable disease or evil. Origin: L. Irremediabilis: cf. F. Irremediable. See In- not, and Remediable. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| irresistible impulse | A compulsion to act such that one feels or claims it cannot be resisted. (05 Mar 2000) |
| irresolvable | Incapable of being resolved; not separable into component parts. <astronomy> Irresolvable nebulae, nebulae of a cloudlike appearance, which have not yet been resolved by the telescope into stars. Origin: Pref. Ir- not + resolvable. Cf. Irresoluble. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| irrespirable | 1. Incapable of being inhaled because of irritation to the airway, resulting in breath-holding. 2. Denoting a gas or vapor either poisonous or containing insufficient oxygen. 3. Denoting an aerosol composed of particles with aerodynamic size larger than 10 u. (05 Mar 2000) |
| irresponsibility | The state of not acting in a manner that is responsible, for conscious or unconscious reasons. Criminal irresponsibility, the state, usually attributed to mental defect or disease, that renders a person not responsbile for his criminal conduct. (05 Mar 2000) |
| irresuscitable | Incapable of being revived. (05 Mar 2000) |
| irreversible | Incapable of being reversed. (18 Nov 1997) |
| irreversible colloid | A colloid that is not again soluble in water after having been dried at ordinary temperature. Synonym: unstable colloid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| irreversible hydrocolloid | A hydrocolloid whose physical state is changed by an irreversible chemical reaction when water is added to a powder and an insoluble substance is formed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| irreversible process | <chemistry> Any real process, when a system undergoes the changes State 1 - greater than State 2 - greater than State 1 by any real pathway, the universe is different that before the cyclic process took place in the system. (09 Jan 1998) |
| irreversible reaction | A reaction or response by the tissues to a pathogenic agent characterised by a permanent pathologic change. (05 Mar 2000) |