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Valvular incompetence
The backward flow of blood through a valve, e.g., a cardiac valve during the stage of the cardiac cycle when the valve leaflets should be closed.
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Relative incompetence
Excessive dilatation of a cardiac cavity, rendering it impossible for the cardiac valves leading in and out of the chamber to close perfectly.
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Pyloric incompetence
A weakness of the pyloric sphincter, which permits undigested food to leave the stomach and enter the duodenum.
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Muscular incompetence
An imperfect closure of one of the atrioventricular valves due to weak action of papillary muscles.
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Mental incompetence
Legally unable to execute a contract, or to perform necessary activities and tasks expected of one’s life roles.
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Ileocecal incompetence
An inability of the ileocecal valve to stop the return of the feces from the colon to the ileum.
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Chronotropic incompetence
An inappropriate response of the heart rate to stimulation, e.g., a slow heart rate during an exercise stress test.
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Physiological incompatibility
A condition in which one or more substances in a mixture oppose or counteract one of the other compounds being administered.
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Fetal inclusion
Malformed twins in which one, the parasite, is completely enclosed within the other, its host or autosite.
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Inclusion body
Microscopic structures (made of a dense, occasionally infective core surrounded by an envelope) seen in the cytoplasm and nuclei of cells infected with some intracellular pathogens. Inclusion bodies are seen in cells infected with herpesviruses (especially cytomegalovirus), smallpox, lymphogranuloma venereum, psittacosis, and other organisms. An entity discovered inside body cells during viral infections, which can…
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