| IEE | inner enamel epithelium |
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| IFF | inner fracture face |
| IH | idiopathic hirsutism; idiopathic hypercalciuria; immediate hypersensitivity; incompletely healed; in... |
| IHC | idiopathic hemochromatosis; idiopathic hypercalciuria; immunohistochemistry; inner hair cell; intrah... |
| IM | idiopathic myelofibrosis; immunosuppressive method; implementation monitoring; Index Medicus; indome... |
| sign language | A system of hand gestures used for communication by the deaf or by people speaking different languages. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| speech-language pathology | The study of speech or language disorders and their diagnosis and correction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| natural language processing | Computer processing of a language with rules that reflect and describe current usage rather than prescribed usage. (12 Dec 1998) |
| unified medical language system | A research and development program initiated by the national library of medicine to build an intelligent automated system that can understand biomedical concepts, words, and expressions and their interrelationships, and use this understanding to help users retrieve and organise information from a variety of machine-readable sources. The goal of the umls is to compensate for differences in the terminology of the disparate systems and for variations in user modes of expression. The umls project has produced four knowledge sources meant to be used by user interface programs. These are the metathesaurus, the semantic network, the information sources map, and the specialist lexicon. (12 Dec 1998) |
| language | 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth. Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one person communicates his ideas to another. This is the primary sense of language, the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are represented to the eye by letters, marks, or characters, which form words. 2. The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality. 3. The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation. 4. The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style. "Others for language all their care express." (Pope) 5. The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants. 6. The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers. "There was . . . Language in their very gesture." (Shak) 7. The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology. 8. A race, as distinguished by its speech. "All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image." (Dan. Iii. 7) Language master, a teacher of languages. Synonym: Speech, tongue, idiom, dialect, phraseology, diction, discourse, conversation, talk. Language, Speech, Tongue, Idiom, Dialect. Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the language of articulate sounds; tongue is the Anglo-Saxon tern for language, especially. For spoken language; as, the English tongue. Idiom denotes the forms of construction peculiar to a particular language; dialects are varieties if expression which spring up in different parts of a country among people speaking substantially the same language. Origin: OE. Langage, F. Langage, fr. L. Lingua the tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. Tongue. See Tongue, cf. Lingual. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| language arts | Skills in the use of language which lead to proficiency in written or spoken communication. (12 Dec 1998) |
| language development | The gradual expansion in complexity and meaning of symbols and sounds as perceived and interpreted by the individual through a maturational and learning process. Stages in development include babbling, cooing, word imitation with cognition, and use of short sentences. (12 Dec 1998) |
| language development disorders | Failure to understand or speak the language at the expected age. Causal factors include slow maturation, hearing loss, brain injury, mental retardation and emotional disorders. (12 Dec 1998) |
| language disorders | Disabilities related to both the sensory and motor aspects of language; includes impairments in understanding of written and spoken language, and impairments in speaking and writing language. (12 Dec 1998) |
| language tests | Tests designed to assess language behaviour and abilities. They include tests of vocabulary, comprehension, grammar and functional use of language, e.g., development sentence scoring, receptive-expressive emergent language scale, parsons language sample, utah test of language development, michigan language inventory and verbal language development scale, illinois test of psycholinguistic abilities, northwestern syntax screening test, peabody picture vocabulary test, ammons full-range picture vocabulary test, and assessment of children's language comprehension. (12 Dec 1998) |
| language therapy | Rehabilitation of persons with language disorders or training of children with language development disorders. (12 Dec 1998) |
| language zone | A large area of the cerebral cortex on the left side (in right-handed persons) considered by some to embrace all the centres of memories and associations connected with language. (05 Mar 2000) |