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Imperative
Imperative The converse of adventive, in the sense of being obligatory in the development of all members of a species.
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Development
The process of growth and differentiation.
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Impedance plethysmography
A test to evaluate blood flow through the leg.
Imperatriz doctors
All doctors near Imperatriz, Brazil. Doctors who can assist a patient in Imperatriz.
Imperforate
Atretic; closed.
Imperial Point Medical Center
Imperial Point Medical Center is a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (USA).
Impersonator
An actor or person who assumes the personality and plays the role of being somebody else.
Impetigo
A streptococcal or staphylococcal infection that erodes the skin and dries to form a yellow-crusted sore.
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Ideology
A set of ideas, beliefs, or principles to which a person or group adheres, lives by, and possibly dies for.
Idiopathic
Of unexplained origin, as in the development of a symptom or syndrome that is apparently spontaneously generated.
Idiosyncratic
Pertaining to one's individual and sujectively personal ideation, cognitions, affect, tastes, attitudes, habits and behaviors. As in fingerprints, irises, and DNA coding (except in identical twins) the term pertains to one's individuality in any specific measurable factor. Compare to phyletic.
Imagery
In mental life, the collective representation of mental images or depictions of anything either perceived (perceptual imagery) or, if not actually present as a sensory stimulus, recognized in memory (memory imagery), or in dream, confabulation, or fantasy (fictive imagery). Imagery refers to a predominantly visual sensory modality of input.
Immutable
Long-lasting and unchangeable.
Imperative
Impersonator
An actor or person who assumes the personality and plays the role of being somebody else.
Impetigo
A streptococcal or staphylococcal infection that erodes the skin and dries to form a yellow-crusted sore.
Impregnation
The process of being rendered pregnant by the intromission of sperm into the uterus and the union of egg and sperm.
Imprinting
Developmental learning of a type first brought to scientific attention in studies of animal behavior by ethologists. Imprinting takes place in a given species when behavior phyletically programmed into the nervous system of that species requires a matching socioenvironmental stimulus to release it, when the matching must take place during a critical or sensitive developmental period (not before or after), and when, having occurred, the resultant behavior pattern is unusually resistant to extinction. In human beings, native language learning is a manifestation of imprinting.
Incest
Sexual contact customarily or legally forbidden on the criterion of the close kinship of the two people, variably defined on the basis of genealogical or totemic descent, or by reason of marriage or adoption [from Latin, incestus, unchaste]. Sexual intercourse between persons to whom it is locally forbidden by law or custom because of their relatedness as kinsfolk to totemic clanfolk. The degree of relatedness varies among societies, and the relationship need not be genealogical.
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