In-law
A relative by marriage. An in-law is not a biologic relative. This distinction is of importance in a medical family history.
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A condition that results in the inability to produce dilute urine and imbalance of fluids and electrolytes in the body, particularly lowering blood sodium. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, muscle cramps, confusion, and convulsions. This syndrome may occur with oat-cell lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, and Hodgkin’s disease, among other disorders. Also known as syndrome […]
- Inborn error of metabolism
the presence of uric acid in the urine of people with gout). The 4 inborn errors of metabolism that Archibald Garrod considered were albinism, alkaptonuria, pentosuria, and cystinuria.
- Inbreeding
The mating of two closely related persons. Also called consanguinity.
- Inbreeding, coefficient of
A measure of how close two people are genetically to each another. The coefficient of inbreeding, symbolized by the letter F, is the probability that a person with two identical genes received both genes from one ancestor. Take a first-cousin mating. First cousins share a set of grandparents. For any particular gene in the male, […]
- Incase
A term once used to refer to the medical case of an inpatient.