| impaction |
Blockage by material such as feces that is firmly packed, lodged, or wedged in position in a body passage or cavity such as the colon or rectum.
Ãâó: www.colonrectal.org/patientinfo/definitions/defini...
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| impairment |
As defined by the World Health Organization, an impairment is any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological, or anatomical structure or function. It represents a deviation from the person
Ãâó: www.nationalmssociety.org/I%20-%20N.asp
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| impaired glucose tolerance |
A condition associated with excessive elevation in blood sugar after a meal but not meeting the criteria for a diagnosis of diabetes. Blood sugar is between 101 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) and 125 mg/dL. Also called borderline diabetes and prediabetes.
Ãâó: www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm
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| impaction |
A condition that a tooth is not able to come in normally or stuck underneath another tooth or bone.
Ãâó: www.dentistonweb.com/wisdomTooth/dictionary.shtml
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| impaired glucose tolerance |
a state which is borderline to true diabetes. Usually refers to a borderline state that exists outside of pregnancy (non-pregnant fasting levels >110 mg/dl or post-meal levels >140 mg/dl), but some researchers use a similar term for a state which is just short of gd in pregnancy. In this, a woman may be just shy of the cutoffs used to diagnose gd or she may have only 1 raised level on the glucose tolerance test instead of the usual 2. ...
Ãâó: www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/gd/gdglossary.htm
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