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Infatuation
Infatuation Foolish and extravagant passion, especially as applied to a love affair that does not meet with family or local community or religious approval, and does not conform to customary criteria of a well arranged marriage.
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Love
The personal experience and manifest expression of being attached or bonded to another person. There is sacred and profane love, and affectional and erotic love. The word is also used in the vernacular as a synonym for like.
Family
1. A group of individuals related by blood or marriage or by a feeling of closeness. 2. A biological classification of related plants or animals that is a division below the order and above the genus. 3. A group of genes related in structure and in function that descended from an ancestral gene. 4. A group of gene products similarly related in structure and function and of shared genetic descent. 5. Parents and their children. The most fundamental social group in humans.
Local
In the area of the tumor; confined to one specific area.
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Infancy
Babyhood; the period of development between birth and the beginning of early childhood between the ages of two and three years.
Infant
A child under a year of age.
Infant mortality
The death of an infant during the first year of life.
Infantilism
The paraphilia of impersonating an infant and being treated as one by the partner; one of the stigmatic/eligibilic paraphilias. Synonym, autonepiophilia.
Infants feverall
Infants feverall is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): acetaminophen.
Infarct
A localized area of ischemic necrosis produced by the occlusion of the blood vessels - either arterial supply or venous drainage.
Infarction
Tissue death due to lack of oxygen-rich blood.
Infasurf preservative free
Infasurf preservative free is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): calfactant.
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Incubus
An evil spirit or demon that assumes the form of a male and is supposed to lie upon sleeping people, chiefly women, and to have sexual intercourse with them; a nightmare.
Indolamine
One of a subgroup of biogenic amines; it functions as one of the brain's neurotransmitters. Serotonin is the best know idolamine.
Inertia
In erotic/sexual usage inertia is apathy or lack of responsiveness or arousal at the proceptive phase. It typically involves also the acceptive phase. It is experienced subjectively as lack of desire or drive.
Infancy
Babyhood; the period of development between birth and the beginning of early childhood between the ages of two and three years.
Infantilism
The paraphilia of impersonating an infant and being treated as one by the partner; one of the stigmatic/eligibilic paraphilias. Synonym, autonepiophilia.
Infatuation
Inframasculinize
To masculinize insufficiently.
Inguinal
Pertaining to the inguen or groin, the region or crease between the abdomen and the thigh.
Inguinal hernia
An abnormal patency or opening by malformation or trauma into the inguinal canal in the groin between the lower abdomen and the scrotum; as for example, when a loop of small intestine protrudes into the canal and may be palpated in the groin or scrotum.
Interaxillary
In the armpit, or between the upper arm and lateral chest.
Intercourse
Connection or interaction between people. In sexual intercourse, the connection is usually defined as being between two people. It is erroneously restricted to putting the penis into the vagina (or anus) or the vagina (or anus) onto the penis (penovaginal or penoanal intercourse, respectively). The entire sexual interaction between the partners constitutes sexual intercourse. 2. Connection or interaction between people. In sexual intercourse, the connection is usually defined as being between two people. It is erroneously defined as putting the penis into the vagina (penovaginal intercourse), for the entire sexual interaction between the partners constitutes sexual intercourse.
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