Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Intrapsychotic conflict

    Inner conflict.  

  • Intrapsychic methods (Therapy)

    Techniques used to treat behavioral problems, such as alcoholism, that include role-playing, psychodrama, and group therapy. These methods are based on the somewhat controversial assumption that behavioral problems stem from emotional or unconsciously motivated factors.  

  • Intrapsychic factors

    Any factor, physical, psychological, or social, that influences a person’s ability to function mentally and emotionally.  

  • Intrapersonal relationship

    How a person views the self.  

  • Intraocular tension

    The pressure of the vitreous humor within the eyeball. The pressure generated by the fluid inside the eye can be measured using a tonometer or by feeling with the fingers. Elevated eye pressure leads to glaucoma.  

  • Intraocular lens

    A lens made of plastic or other synthetic material used to replace an abnormal eye lens, as in the removal of a cataract. An artificial lens implanted inside the eye. Artificial lens implanted into the eye after surgical cataract removal to replace the cataract-damaged natural lens. An artificial lens for the eye, implanted in the…

  • Intramuscular injection (IM)

    Hypodermic injection of drugs or fluids into a muscle. An injection of liquid into a muscle, e.g. for a slow release of a drug. Injection into intramuscular tissue, usually the anterior thigh, deltoid, or buttocks. Intramuscular injections are used primarily in the administration of vaccines, immune globulins, long-acting corticosteroids, some antibiotics, some hormones, analgesics, and…

  • Intraindividual

    Comparisons of an individual’s levels of performance in different area, e.g., motor skills versus musical skills.  

  • Intracutaneous

    Within the skin. Inside layers of skin tissue. Within the context of the skin, this refers to a location situated directly beneath the outermost layer of the skin.  

  • Intracranial

    Within the skull. The term applied to structures, diseases, etc. contained in or arising within the head.  

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