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Immunization, varicella zoster
Immunization, varicella zoster: This immunization is aimed at preventing the common disease known as chickenpox (varicella zoster). While chickenpox is often considered a trivial illness, it can cause significant lost time on the job and in schoomore detail info...
Immunocompetant
Immunocompetant: Able to develop an immune response. The opposite of immunodeficient.more detail info...
Immunodeficiency
Immunodeficiency: Inabillity to mount a normal immune response. Immunodeficiency can be due to a genetic disease or acquired as in AIDS due to HIV.more detail info...
Immunodeficient
Immunodeficient: Lacking immunity and so susceptible to infection.more detail info...
Immunodepression
Immunodepression: See immunosuppression.more detail info...
Immunogenetics
Immunogenetics: The genetics (inheritance) of the immune response. For example, the study of the Rh, ABO and other blood groups or the HLA system important to kidney and other transplants.more detail info...
Immunoglobulin E (IgE)
Immunoglobulin E (IgE): Antibody of a specific class used to fight invading allergic substances (allergens). An allergic person frequently has elevated blood levels of IgE. IgE antibodies attack and engage the invading army of allergens.more detail info...
Immunologist
Immunologist: A person who is knowledgeable about immunology.more detail info...
Immunology
Immunology: The study of all aspects of the immune system including its structure and function, disorders of the immune system, blood banking, immunization and organ transplantation.more detail info...
Immunosuppression
Immunosuppression: Lowering the immune response, for example, with radiation or medications.more detail info...
Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy: Treatment to stimulate or restore the ability of the immune (defense) system to fight infection and disease. Biological therapy is thus any form of treatment that uses the body's natural abilities that constitute the immune system to fightmore detail info...
Immunotherapy, allergy
Immunotherapy, allergy: Stimulation of the immune system with gradually increasing doses of the substances to which a person is allergic, the aim being to modify or stop the allergy &war& (by reducing the strength of the IgE and its effect onmore detail info...
Impact
Impact: To lodge firmly or wedge in.more detail info...
Impaction, dental
Impaction, dental: Teeth pressing together. For example, molar teeth (the large teeth in the back of the jaw) can be impacted, cause pain and require pain medication, antibiotics, and surgical removal.more detail info...
Imperforate anus
Imperforate anus: Birth defect where the rectum is a blind alley and there is no anus. Imperforate anus occurs in about 1 in 5,000 births and is corrected by surgery.more detail info...
Impetigo
Impetigo: A strep(tococcal) skin infection.more detail info...
Implantable cardiac defibrillator
Implantable cardiac defibrillator: A device that is put within the body and is designed to recognize certain types of abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) and correct them. Defibrillators continuously monitor the heart rhythm in order to detect overly rmore detail info...
Implantable pacemaker
Implantable pacemaker: A device that uses electrical impulses to regulate the heart rhythm or reproduce it. An internal pacemaker is one in which the electrodes into the heart, the electronic circuitry and the power supply are implanted (internally) wimore detail info...
Impotence
Impotence: A consistent inability to sustain an erection sufficient for sexual intercourse. Impotence can be a total inability to achieve erection, an inconsistent ability to do so, or a tendency to sustain only brief erections. Also known as emore detail info...
Impotence
Impotence: An inability to sustain an erection sufficient for sexual intercourse or to achieve ejaculation, or both. Impotence usually has a physical cause, such as disease, injury, drug side-effects, or a disorder that impairs bmore detail info...