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Ichizo Nishino
Ichizo Nishino is a Japanese neurologist and muscle disease researcher at the NCNP in Tokyo, known for identifying the causes of Danon disease and GNE myopathy.
Ichneumonidae
Ichneumonidae, the ichneumon wasps, is a family of parasitoid wasps in Hymenoptera, superfamily Ichneumonoidea, sister to Braconidae, with over 25,000 described species, 24 to 44 subfamilies, and major importance in biological pest control.
Ichor (χώρ)
Ichor (ἰχώρ, Greek; sometimes called the golden blood) is the ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the Greek gods instead of blood, first named in Iliad 5 when Diomedes wounds Aphrodite; Aristotle later used ichor for the watery part of blood.
Ichthyology
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the scientific study of fishes, covering their taxonomy, anatomy, behavior, ecology, and conservation; about 36,000 species are known.
Ichthyophiidae
Ichthyophiidae, the Asian tailed caecilians, are a family of limbless, worm-like amphibians with true tails and aquatic larvae, living from India and the Philippines to southern China.
Ichthyophis
Ichthyophis (Asian caecilians, 鱼螈属) is a genus of 51 species of limbless caecilian amphibians in the family Ichthyophiidae, ranging from southern Asia to the western Indo-Australian Archipelago and the Philippines, distinct from other caecilian genera by inner mandibular teeth and tentacle position.
Ichthyophthirius multifiliis
Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, known among aquarists as ich or ick, is a parasitic ciliate that infects the skin and gills of freshwater fish, causing white spot disease.
Ichthyosaurus
Ichthyosaurus, the fish reptile, is the first-named genus of ichthyosaurs, Early Jurassic marine reptiles from England named by Konig in 1817, with I. communis of De la Beche and Conybeare as type species.
Ichthyosis
Ichthyosis: a group of rare inherited or acquired skin disorders causing dry, scaly skin from defective epidermal barrier formation. Includes ichthyosis vulgaris, X-linked, ARCI, and harlequin forms; treated with emollients, keratolytics, and retinoids.
Ichthyosis follicularis-alopecia-photophobia syndrome
Ichthyosis follicularis-alopecia-photophobia (IFAP) syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized from birth by follicular ichthyosis, body-wide hair loss, and photophobia, primarily affecting males and caused by mutations in the X-linked MBTPS2 gene.
Ichthyosis hystrix of Curth-Macklin
Ichthyosis hystrix of Curth-Macklin (IHCM), also called ichthyosis Curth-Macklin, is an ultrarare autosomal dominant keratinopathic ichthyosis caused by KRT1 frameshift mutations, marked by spiky hyperkeratosis, mutilating palmoplantar keratoderma, and binucleated keratinocytes, without blistering.
Ichthyosis vulgaris
Ichthyosis vulgaris (fish scale disease), the most common inherited ichthyosis, is caused by FLG filaggrin gene mutations, affects about 1 in 250 people, and causes dry, scaly skin with atopic dermatitis in 50% of cases.
Ichthyosis-prematurity syndrome
Ichthyosis-prematurity syndrome (IPS, congenital ichthyosis type 4) is a rare autosomal recessive ichthyosis from SLC27A4 mutations, causing premature birth, clay-like vernix, neonatal asphyxia, eosinophilia, and later mild atopic follicular hyperkeratosis.
Ichthyotitan
Ichthyotitan severnensis, giant fish lizard of the Severn, is a giant shastasaurid ichthyosaur from the latest Rhaetian (~202 Ma) of Somerset, England, described in 2024 from two surangular jaw bones and estimated at about 25 m, probably the largest marine reptile formally described.
Ichthys
Ichthys (ἰχθύς, Greek for fish), also called the Jesus fish, is an early Christian symbol of two intersecting arcs read as an acrostic for "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior", used from the second century in the Roman catacombs and revived on car emblems in the 1970s.
Ichthys Gas Pipeline
The Ichthys Gas Export Pipeline is a 42-inch subsea gas pipeline about 890 kilometers long, running from the Browse Basin off Western Australia to Darwin.
Ichthys LNG project
The Ichthys LNG project is a liquefied natural gas development operated by Japan's INPEX, drawing gas from the Ichthys field off Western Australia and processing it near Darwin since 2018.
Ici Musique
Ici Musique, known as Espace musique until 2014, is Radio-Canada's French-language music radio network and web destination, airing mainly Canadian music from chanson and jazz to hip-hop.
ICICI Bank
ICICI Bank is an Indian private-sector universal bank, formed in 2002 when ICICI, a development finance institution founded in 1955, merged with its banking subsidiary.
ICICI Lombard
ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited is India's largest private-sector general insurer, founded in 2000 by ICICI and Lombard of Canada, with an 8.9% market share in FY2026.
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance is an Indian private life insurer founded in 2000 by ICICI Bank and Prudential plc, and listed on Indian stock exchanges in 2016.
Icing (food)
Icing (also called frosting, especially in the US) is a sugar-based coating for cakes and cookies. Basic icing is confectioners' sugar plus liquid; frosting is thicker and whipped, icing thinner and glossier; royal icing dries hard for decorating.
Icing (game)
Icing (game): a 2010 American drinking game, also called Bros Icing Bros, in which a hidden or handed-over Smirnoff Ice forces the finder to kneel and chug it; carrying one allows an ice block.
Icing (ice hockey)
Icing (ice hockey): rule stopping a team at equal or greater strength from shooting the puck from its own half past the opponent's goal line; NHL Rule 81, IIHF Rule 81, hybrid icing since 2013-14, face-off in the offending end with no line change.
Icing conditions
Icing conditions are atmospheric conditions in which ice can form on an aircraft in flight, arising when supercooled droplets in cloud or precipitation strike a below-freezing surface.
Iciniacum
Iciniacum was a Roman cavalry-and-infantry fort on the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, about 500 m northwest of Theilenhofen in Bavaria, garrisoned by about 500 soldiers and destroyed around AD 254.
Ick (film)
Ick is a 2024 American sci-fi horror comedy directed by Joseph Kahn, starring Brandon Routh, Malina Weissman, and Mena Suvari. A science teacher fights a vine-like alien growth in Eastbrook; premiered at TIFF 2024, released July 27, 2025 via Fathom.
Ick Chan Kwon
Ick Chan Kwon, born 1959 in Daegu, South Korea, is a drug delivery and nanomedicine scientist who spent his career as a principal research scientist at KIST.
Icklingham
Icklingham is a village in Suffolk, England, on the River Lark near Mildenhall, site of a Roman small town with a possible Christian cemetery and of the Lower Palaeolithic Devereux's Pit.
Icknield Street
Icknield Street, also Ryknild Street, names two English routes: a prehistoric chalk ridgeway (the Icknield Way) and a Roman road from Bourton-on-the-Water to Templeborough via Birmingham and Lichfield, best preserved in Sutton Park.