interstellar medium
— Noun
– English
～ interstellar space including streams of protons moving from the stars
insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
— Noun
– English
～ severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease
immediate memory
— Noun
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～ what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it
inferior mesenteric artery
— Noun
– English
～ arises near the lower end of the aorta and supplies the large intestine
Ibero-mesornis
— Noun
– English
～ sparrow-sized fossil bird of the Cretaceous period having a vestigial tail; found in Spain; considered possibly the third most primitive of all birds
Ilya Ilich Metchnikov
— Noun
– English
～ Russian bacteriologist in France who formulated the theory of phagocytosis (1845-1916)
in-migration
— Noun
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～ migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
international mile
— Noun
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～ a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
ice milk
— Noun
– English
～ similar to ice cream but made of milk
Italian millet
— Noun
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～ coarse drought-resistant annual grass grown for grain, hay, and forage in Europe and Asia and chiefly for forage and hay in United States
Indian millet
— Noun
– English
～ sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa
Indian millet
— Noun
– English
～ valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico
itch mite
— Noun
– English
～ whitish mites that attack the skin of humans and other animals; "itch mites cause scabies"
iron mold
— Noun
– English
～ a spot caused the staining with rust or ink
International Monetary Fund
— Noun
– English
～ a United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies
Inner Mongolia
— Noun
– English
～ an autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911
Indian mongoose
— Noun
– English
～ keen-sighted viverrine of southern Asia about the size of a ferret; often domesticated
interior monologue
— Noun
– English
～ a literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologue
infectious mononucleosis
— Noun
– English
～ an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing