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Ingrid Michaelson
Ingrid Michaelson (born 1979) is an American indie-pop singer-songwriter from Staten Island, known for "The Way I Am", self-released albums including Girls and Boys, and the Broadway musical The Notebook.
Ingrid Mickler Becker
Ingrid Mickler-Becker (born 1942, Geseke), German track and field athlete competing as Ingrid Becker; 1968 Olympic pentathlon champion (5098 pts) and 1972 4x100 m relay gold medalist in world-record time.
Ingrid Newkirk
Ingrid Newkirk (Ingrid Elizabeth Newkirk, born 1949, Surrey, England) is the co-founder, president, and principal of PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization, founded in 1980 with Alex Pacheco, known for confrontational campaigns, books like Animalkind, and firsts in animal-cruelty law enforcement.
Ingrid Nilsen
Ingrid Nilsen (born 1989) is an American YouTuber and entrepreneur, known as Missglamorazzi (2009–2020, 3.46M subscribers), who came out in a 2015 video and co-founded the Brooklyn candle brand The New Savant.
Ingrid of Sweden
Ingrid of Sweden (Ingrid Victoria Sofia Louise Margareta, 1910–2000), Swedish princess, daughter of Gustaf VI Adolf, who married Frederik IX in 1935 and was Queen consort of Denmark 1947–1972, mother of Margrethe II.
Ingrid Oliver
Ingrid Oliver (born 1977) is an English actress, writer, and comedian, half of the duo Watson & Oliver and best known as Petronella Osgood in Doctor Who from The Day of the Doctor (2013) onward.
Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid Pitt, also known as Ingoushka Petrov, was a Polish and British actress and writer. She gained fame in the early 1970s for her roles in Hammer horror films.
Ingrid Sandahl
Ingrid Sandahl (Ingrid Clara Charlotta Sandahl, later Sundell, 1924-2011), Swedish artistic gymnast with GK Hermes Stockholm; Olympic gold in team portable apparatus at Helsinki 1952 and 1950 World team gold.
Ingrid Schmidt
Ingrid Schmidt (Ingrid Schmidt-Naue, 1945-2023), East German backstroke swimmer; 1960 Olympic bronze in the 4x100 m medley relay, 1962 European champion and world record holder (4:40.1).
Ingrid Sischy
Ingrid Sischy (1952–2015), South African-born American editor and critic, led Artforum 1979–1987 and Andy Warhol's Interview magazine until 2008, then wrote for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.
Ingrid Superstar
Ingrid Superstar (Ingrid von Scheven, believed) was a Warhol superstar actress of the 1960s Factory films, starring in Chelsea Girls and Hedy, replacing Edie Sedgwick as Warhol's leading star in 1966; she disappeared from Kingston, New York in December 1986 and was never found.
Ingrown hair
An ingrown hair is a removed hair that grows back into the skin, causing itchy bumps; the chronic beard form is pseudofolliculitis barbae, or razor bumps.
Ingrown nail
Ingrowing nail (onychocryptosis, ingrown toenail): nail edge punctures the nail fold, mainly the great toe of young men; treated conservatively or by nail avulsion with phenol ablation.
Inguinal canal
Inguinal canal: oblique 4-6 cm passage through the lower abdominal wall, transmitting the spermatic cord (male) or round ligament (female); walls, deep and superficial rings, hernia subtypes, imaging accuracy, and embryology.
Inguinal hernia
Inguinal hernia: protrusion of abdominal contents through a weak groin in the abdominal wall; 75% of abdominal wall hernias, lifetime incidence 27% in men. Treated by watchful waiting or open, laparoscopic, or Shouldice repair.
Inguinal hernia surgery
Inguinal hernia surgery, or groin hernia repair, corrects inguinal hernias via open Lichtenstein mesh repair or laparoscopic TAPP/TEP; laparoscopy reduces chronic pain 26–46% but takes longer.
Inguinal lymph nodes
Inguinal lymph nodes (nodi lymphoidei inguinales), groin lymph nodes in superficial and deep groups, drain the legs, genitals, perineum, and lower abdominal wall into the external iliac nodes; key sites for infection signs and cancer staging.
Inguinal orchiectomy
Inguinal orchiectomy is a urologic procedure that removes a testicle and its spermatic cord through a groin incision, the standard of care for suspected testicular cancer.
Inguri Dam
The Inguri Dam, also called the Enguri Dam (Georgian: ენგურჰესი), is a concrete arch dam on the Inguri River in northwestern Georgia, completed in 1980 and among the tallest dams in the world.
Ingush language
Ingush (Ghalghaj mott) is a Northeast Caucasian language of the Nakh branch, closely related to Chechen, spoken in Ingushetia, Russia, where it is a state language with complex consonants, fixed initial stress, and Cyrillic-based orthography.
Ingush people
Ingush (self-name Ghalghaj, гIалгIай), a Vainakh people of the North Caucasus closely related to the Chechens; mountain people who migrated to lowlands in the 16th-19th centuries, deported in 1944, now centered in the Republic of Ingushetia.
Ingush tower
An Ingush tower is a medieval stone tower of mountainous Ingushetia in the North Caucasus, built from the 12th to the 18th century as dwelling, fortress, or both.
Ingushetia (ГӀалгӀайче)
Ingushetia (ГӀалгӀайче), Republic of Ingushetia, is Russia's smallest republic by area, formed 4 June 1992 in the North Caucasus with capital Magas; known for the 1944 deportation, Chechen war spillover, insurgency, and the contested 2018 Chechnya border deal.
Ingvar Bengtsson
Ingvar Bengtsson names two Swedish Olympians: a middle-distance runner (1922–2001, fifth in the 800 m at London 1948, Gefle IF) and a Finn-class sailor (born 1955, tenth at Los Angeles 1984, GKSS Göteborg).
Ingvar Bjarnason
Ingvar Bjarnason is a British gastroenterologist at King's College London known for defining NSAID enteropathy, developing the 51Cr-EDTA intestinal permeability test, and validating fecal calprotectin as a marker of intestinal inflammation.
Ingvar Hansson
Ingvar Hansson (Gert Ingvar Severin Hansson), Swedish Olympic sailor born 1947 in Göteborg; crew for John Albrechtson, fourth at Munich 1972 and Tempest-class gold medalist at Montreal 1976.
Ingvar Kamprad
Ingvar Kamprad, also known as Ingvar Feodor Kamprad, was a Swedish entrepreneur who registered IKEA in 1943 at age 17 and built it into the world's largest furniture retailer.
Ingvild Flugstad Østberg
Ingvild Flugstad Østberg (born 1990 in Gjøvik, Norway) is a Norwegian cross-country skier who won Olympic gold and the overall FIS Cross-Country World Cup in 2019.
Inhalant
Inhalants: volatile solvents, aerosols, gases, and nitrites inhaled to get high, also called huffing or sniffing. Common household products; peak use at ages 14-15; no evidence-based treatment per Cochrane.
Inhalation Administration
Inhalation Administration (MeSH Administration, Inhalation) is drug delivery by the respiratory route via pMDIs, dry powder inhalers, soft mist inhalers, and nebulizers; first-line for asthma and COPD, with no proven clinical advantage of any device over the cheapest pMDI.