| IBB | intestinal brush border |
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| IGP | intestinal glycoprotein |
| IIP | idiopathic interstitial pneumonia; idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction; increased intracranial ... |
| IMC | indigent medical care; information-memory-concentration [test]; interdigestive migrating contraction... |
| INT | intermediate; intermittent; intern, internship; internal; interval; intestinal; intima; p-iodonitrot... |
| intestinal stasis | Intestinal stasis; a retardation or arrest of the passage of the intestinal contents. Synonym: intestinal stasis. Origin: entero-+ G. Stasis, a standing (05 Mar 2000) |
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| intestinal steatorrhoea | Steatorrhoea due to malabsorption resulting from intestinal disease. See: sprue, coeliac disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intestinal surface of uterus | The posterosuperior surface of the uterus with which loops of intestine come in contact. Synonym: facies intestinalis uteri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intestinal tract | <anatomy> This includes the coarse of the small and large intestines and includes approximately 27 feet of bowel. (27 Sep 1997) |
| intestinal trunks | The vessels conveying lymph from the lower part of the liver, the stomach, spleen, pancreas, and small intestine; they discharge into the cisterna chyli and are sometimes duplicated. Synonym: trunci intestinales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intestinal villi | <pathology> Microscopic finger-like projections (0.5 to 1.5 mm in length) off of the mucosal lining of the small intestine which are responsible for absorption of nutrients. The villi greatly increase the effective absorptive surface area of the small intestine. (27 Sep 1997) |
| juxta-intestinal lymph nodes | The mesenteric lymph nodes located in immediate proximity to the jejunum or ileum. Synonym: nodi lymphatici juxta-intestinales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| familial intestinal polyposis | Begins usually in late childhood; polyps increase in numbers, causing symptoms of chronic colitis, and carcinoma of the colon almost invariably develops in untreated cases; autosomal dominant inheritance. In the Gardner syndrome there are extracolonic changes (desmoid tumours, etc.). Synonym: polyposis coli. Hamartomatous polyposis of the small or large intestine, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome with melanin spots on the lips, less common, miscellaneous, rare, and doubtful occurrences. Synonym: familial intestinal polyposis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lieno-intestinal | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno-intestinal vein of the frog. Origin: l. Lien the spleen + E. Intestinal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lipophagic intestinal granulomatosis | An obsolete term for Whipple's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lymphangiectasis, intestinal | Dilatation of the intestinal lymphatic system, particularly in the lacteals in the intestinal villi, characterised by protein-losing enteropathy, steatorrhoea, and lymphopenia. It may be congenital, due to abnormality of the lymphatic system (as in milroy's disease) or acquired, due to involvement of the major intestinal lymphatic ducts by inflammatory processes or neoplasm, or to increased lymphatic pressure, as in valvular heart disease and constrictive pericarditis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| affective personality disorder | A disturbance of feelings or mood expressed as a milder form of depression and related emotional features that colour the whole psychic life and for which psychosocial stressors are believed to play the major role. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alcohol amnestic disorder | <psychiatry> A mental disorder with brain damage characterised by amnesia, compensatory confabulation, disturbance of attention, and peripheral neuritis. It is usually associated with alcoholism and dietary deficiencies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| antisocial personality disorder | <psychiatry> An individual who engages in deviant behaviour with lack of remorse. (13 Jan 1998) |
| asthenic personality disorder | A personality type characterised by low energy level, easy fatigability, incapacity for enjoyment, lack of enthusiasm, and oversensitivity to physical and emotional stress. When appearing in marked form it becomes a psychological disorder (asthenic personality disorder), also called dependent personality. Synonym: asthenic personality disorder, dependent personality disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |