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IMBIBED. Taken in by drinking.

IMMUNITY. Freedom from risk of infection.

IMPACTED. Wedged in.

IMPEDE. To hinder; to obstruct.

IMPETUS. The force with which any body is driven or impelled.

IMPINGE. Literally, to fall against; in Osteopathy used with reference to nerves pinched between adjacent vertebrae.

IMPOTENCE. A lack of sexual power.

INANITION. Exhaustion arising from organic inability to assimilate food.

INCEPTION. The beginning.

INCOHERENCY. The quality of being unconnected in ideas, speech, etc.

INCREMENT. Increase or growth.

INCUMBENT. Resting upon one as a duty or obligation.

INDICES. Plural of Index, that which serves to point out,

INDUBITABLE. Not to be doubted.

INFECTION. The communication of disease-germs.

INFILTERING. Sifting in, or filtering in.

INFLUX. An inflow.

INGEST. To introduce food into the body by the mouth.

INHALE. To draw into the lungs.

INJECTION. Forcing of liquid into a cavity or vessel of the body.

INSALIVATE. To mix food with saliva during mastication.

INSIDIOUS. Sly, treacherous.

INTENTION. The process of healing.