| ILBBB | incomplete left bundle branch block |
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| IMP | idiopathic myeloid proliferation; impression; incomplete male pseudohermaphroditism; individual Medi... |
| IRBBB | incomplete right bundle branch block |
| ITFS | iliotibial tract friction syndrome; incomplete testicular feminization syndrome |
| AASP | acute atrophic spinal paralysis; American Association of Senior Physicians; ascending aorta synchron... |
| HPP | Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis |
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| HyperPP | Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis |
| HypoPP | Hypokalaemic periodic paralysis |
| TPP | Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis |
| incomplete fistula | A fistula that ends in a cul-de-sac, being open at one extremity only. Synonym: incomplete fistula. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |
| Freund's incomplete adjuvant | Water-in-oil emulsion of antigen, without mycobacteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute ascending paralysis | A paralysis of rapid course beginning in the legs and involving progressively the trunk, arms, and neck, ending sometimes in death in from one to three weeks. Synonym: ascending paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute atrophic paralysis | Inflammation of the anterior cornua of the spinal cord; an acute infectious disease caused by the poliomyelitis virus and marked by fever, pains, and gastroenteric disturbances, followed by a flaccid paralysis of one or more muscular groups, and later by atrophy. Synonym: acute atrophic paralysis, myogenic paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ascending paralysis | A paralysis of rapid course beginning in the legs and involving progressively the trunk, arms, and neck, ending sometimes in death in from one to three weeks. Synonym: ascending paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ascending tick paralysis | <neurology> An ascending paralysis caused by the continued presence of Dermacentor and Ixodes ticks attached to the occipital or upper neck region in humans. The treatment consists of tick removal and supportive care. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Brown-Sequard's paralysis | <neurology, syndrome> A type of spinal cord lesion that is characterised by hemiparaplegia and hyperesthesia, but with loss of motor function on the same side as the lesion and hemianaesthesia on the opposite side. (27 Sep 1997) |
| bulbar paralysis | Progressive weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the tongue, lips, palate, pharynx, and larynx, usually occurring in later life; most often caused by motor neuron disease. Synonym: bulbar palsy, bulbar paralysis, Duchenne's disease, Erb disease, glossolabiolaryngeal paralysis, glossolabiopharyngeal paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vasomotor paralysis | A mild degree of vasoparalysis. Synonym: angioparesis, vasomotor paralysis. Origin: vaso-+ G. Paresis, weakness (05 Mar 2000) |
| generalised paralysis | Paralysis of both whole sides of the body; survival is usually of short duration. Synonym: generalised paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |