Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Institutional marriage

    A marriage that conforms to society’s expectations and standards.  

  • Institutionalism

    A patient’s gradual acceptance to the authority of the institution to a point where apathy and unquestioned acceptance exists.  

  • Institutional care

    Medical care provided by hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, and nursing homes.  

  • Institution

    An organization that has a special mandate, certain prescribed procedures for processing people or services, and serves a well-defined population. A place where people are cared for, e.g. a hospital or clinic, especially a psychiatric hospital or children’s home.  

  • Institute of society, ethics and life sciences

    Founded in 1969 and consists of leading authorities in biology, medicine, philosophy, law, and the social and behavioral sciences.  

  • Instillation

    An abortion technique in which a foreign substance is injected into the uterus to induce labor. The process of putting a liquid in drop by drop. Liquid put in drop by drop. The application of liquid medication drop by drop, as into the eye. Slowly pouring or dropping a liquid into a cavity or onto…

  • Instigation

    That which sets the occasion for behavior.  

  • In statu quo

    In the situation that existed previously.  

  • In-state student

    A legal resident of a state for the purposes of calculating tuition at a school or college.  

  • Inspissated

    Thickened by evaporation or absorption of fluid. Referring to a liquid which is thickened by removing water from it. Made less liquid or viscous due to thickening or drying.  

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