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Involution
- noun - a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
- the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities"
- the action of enfolding something
- the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
Inwardness
- noun - preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values; "the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness"; "inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright"
- preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values); "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
- the quality or state of being inward or internal; "the inwardness of the body's organs"
Iodic Acid
- noun - a soluble crystalline acid; used as a reagent and disinfectant
Iodinating
- verb - cause to combine with iodine; "iodinate thyroxine"
- combining or causing to combine with iodine; "the active iodinating species"; "the in vivo iodinating mechanism"
Iodination
- noun - the substitution or addition of iodine atoms in organic compounds
Iodine-125
- noun - light radioactive isotope of iodine with a half-life of 60 days; used as a tracer in thyroid studies and as a treatment for hyperthyroidism
Iodine-131
- noun - heavy radioactive isotope of iodine with a half-life of 8 days; used in a sodium salt to diagnose thyroid disease and to treat goiter
Iodocresol
- - Any of several isomeric iodine derivatives of the cresols, C6H3I(CH3)OH, esp. one, an odorless amorphous powder, used in medicine as a substitute for iodoform.
Iodothyrin
- - A peculiar substance obtained from the thyroid gland, containing from nine to ten per cent of iodine.