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  • hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
  • hypoalimentation — insufficient or inadequate nourishment.
  • hypophosphatemia — (medicine) An electrolyte disturbance in which there is an abnormally low level of phosphate in the blood, most commonly seen when malnourished patients are given large amounts of carbohydrates, creating a high phosphorus demand in the cells of the body.
  • hypophysectomies — Plural form of hypophysectomy.
  • immunocompetence — having the potential for immunologic response; capable of developing immunity after exposure to antigen.
  • immunodepressant — preventing or diminishing the immune response
  • impact extrusion — an extrusion process in which a slug of cold metal in a shallow die cavity is formed by the action of a rapidly moving punch that forces the metal through the die or back around the punch.
  • imperfect flower — a unisexual flower with only stamens or only pistils
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • in lockstep with — progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
  • in loco parentis — in the place or role of a parent.
  • in plain clothes — not wearing a uniform
  • in the spotlight — prominently featured
  • in/into a temper — If someone is in a temper or gets into a temper, the way that they are behaving shows that they are feeling angry and impatient.
  • incontinence pad — an absorbent pad used by incontinent people
  • incorporated bar — (in some states) a system of bar associations to which all lawyers are required to belong.
  • indo-europeanist — a linguist specializing in the study, especially the comparative study, of the Indo-European languages.
  • induced topology — a topology of a subset of a topological space, obtained by intersecting the subset with every open set in the topology of the space.
  • infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
  • inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
  • inmos transputer — transputer
  • inter-comparison — the act of comparing.
  • interappointment — Between appointments.
  • interior mapping — an open map.
  • interoperability — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
  • interpenetration — to penetrate thoroughly; permeate.
  • interpretational — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
  • intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
  • introspectionist — observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself.
  • intussusceptions — Plural form of intussusception.
  • irresponsibility — said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.
  • isle of portland — a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material. Pop (town): 12 000 (latest est)
  • james oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
  • japanese bobtail — any of a breed of domestic cat, originating in Japan, with a very short, fluffy tail, and a soft, silky coat often in three colors, white, black, and red
  • john the baptist — the forerunner and baptizer of Jesus. Matt. 3.
  • josephson effect — a high-speed switch, used in experimental computers, that operates on the basis of a radiative phenomenon (Jo·sephson effect) exhibited by a pair of superconductors separated by a thin insulator.
  • keep on a string — to have control or a hold over (someone), esp emotionally
  • kepler telescope — astronomical telescope.
  • key note speaker — a person who delivers a keynote address.
  • kleptoparasitism — The parasitic theft of captured prey, nest material, etc. from animals of the same or another species.
  • laplace equation — the second-order partial differential equation indicating that the Laplace operator operating on a given function results in zero. Compare harmonic (def 4c).
  • laplace operator — the operator ∂2/∂x2 + ∂2/∂y2 + ∂2/∂z2,
  • large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • law of exponents — the theorem stating the elementary properties of exponents, as the property that the product of the same bases, each raised to an exponent, is equal to the base raised to the sum of the exponents: xa ⋅ xb = xa + b .
  • legal separation — judicial separation.
  • leptosporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a single cell, rather than from a group, and normally with specialized explosive spore dispersal
  • lesser spearwort — a Eurasian ranunculaceous plant, R. flammula, of the genus Ranunculus, which grows in wet places and has long narrow leaves and yellow flowers
  • levallois-perret — a suburb of Paris, in N France, on the Seine.
  • level descriptor — one of a set of criteria used to assess the performance of a pupil in a particular subject
  • light microscope — microscope (def 1).
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