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  • Postterm infant

    An infant born after the beginning of the 42nd week of gestation (longer than 288 days).  

  • Infanrix

    Diphtheria, tetanus toxoids, and acellular pertussis (Dtap) vaccine, adsorbed.  

  • Infancy

    The very early period of life from birth until age one year. The period of human growth that persists from the time of emergence to roughly a couple of years afterward.  

  • Sleep inertia

    The normal impairment in thinking and motor performance that immediately follows awakening.  

  • Indwelling

    Inside the body; said of invasive diagnostic or therapeutic devices; pert, to a catheter, drainage tube, or other device that remains inside the body for a prolonged time.  

  • Gray induration

    Unresolved pneumonia with fibrosis of the lung, and no pigmentation.  

  • Granular induration

    Fibrosis of an organ such as the liver or kidney in which small fibrotic granules are present.  

  • Cyanotic induration

    Induration from long continued venous hyperemia, pressure on vessels causing transudation of blood and serum, and formation of a dark, hard mass. In the liver or spleen it leads to absorption of the parenchyma with formation of scar tissue.  

  • Brown induration

    Pigmentation and fibrosis of the lung as a result of chronic venous congestion of the lung. Persistent passive congestion in the lung combined with fibrosis and coloring from an iron-rich blood pigment.  

  • Brawny induration

    Pathological hardening and thickening of tissues, usually due to inflammation.  

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