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Intuppukana Curna
Intuppukana Curna (Intuppukana Churna) is a classical Ayurvedic powder from Sahasrayoga made of rock salt, ajamoda, pippali, and haritaki, used for indigestion and studied for anti-inflammatory activity.
Intussusception (medical disorder)
Intussusception: telescoping of proximal bowel into distal bowel, the leading cause of intestinal obstruction in infants aged 3-36 months; diagnosed by ultrasound and treated by air or liquid enema reduction, with surgery for perforation, lead points, or failure.
Intussusception of appendix
Intussusception of the appendix (appendiceal intussusception), ICD-11 DB11.5, ICD-10 K38.8: rare telescoping of the vermiform appendix into itself or cecum, about 0.01% incidence, roughly 200 reported cases since McKidd's 1858 report.
Intussusception of small intestine
Intussusception of small intestine (ICD-11 DA91.0): telescoping of a proximal small bowel segment into a distal segment, causing obstruction and ischaemia; rare in adults, usually lead-point related, often treated surgically.
Intussusception of the large intestine
Intussusception of the large intestine: telescoping of bowel, usually ileum through the ileocecal valve into the colon. Common in infants, rare in adults, where malignancy is the usual lead point.
Intwa Mound
Intwa Mound is a centrally protected ancient mound at Intwa village, Junagadh district, Gujarat, India (ASI serial 696, Rajkot Circle), identified with an excavated Buddhist vihara in the Girnar foothills; the National Monuments Authority lists it as untraceable.
Inu Tsukuba-shū
Inu Tsukuba-shū (犬筑波集) is a Japanese haikai renga anthology compiled by Yamazaki Sōkan around 1530, credited with helping comic linked verse break from orthodox renga.
Inu-Oh (犬王)
Inu-Oh (犬王, INU-OH) is a 2021 Japanese musical animated film by Masaaki Yuasa and Science SARU, adapted from Hideo Furukawa's novel about the real Muromachi-era Noh performer Inu-Oh; Venice 2021 Orizzonti premiere, 2023 Golden Globe nominee.
Inugami Korone (戌神ころね)
Inugami Korone (戌神ころね), also called Korone, Doggo, or Doog, is a Japanese hololive GAMERS VTuber who debuted April 13, 2019; a bakery-watchdog dog character known for retro-game endurance streams, the OkaKoro pairing with Nekomata Okayu, and millions of YouTube subscribers.
Inuit
Inuit: the Indigenous Arctic people of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland (Inuk singular; Inuvialuit 'the real people'). Constitutionally recognized in Canada; 70,545 in Canada (2021) across Inuit Nunangat's four regions, with five modern treaties and the Inuktut language.
Inuit Ataqatigiit
Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) is a left-wing, environmentalist political party in Greenland, founded in 1976, which advocated for independence. From 2021 to 2025, it headed the Naalakkersuisut government.
Inuit clothing
Inuit clothing: traditional Arctic dress of caribou and sealskin, layered fur-in/fur-out, hollow-haired caribou insulation, sinew-sewn waterproof seams, amauti baby parkas, kamiit boots, and modern fur-trimmed fabric parkas.
Inuit cuisine
Inuit cuisine, the food culture of Inuit across Greenland, Canada, and Alaska, centers on country foods (seal, whale, caribou, fish), raw meat for vitamin C, food-sharing networks, and a post-contact shift toward market foods with nutrient and contaminant trade-offs.
Inuit culture
Inuit culture: culture of the Inuit, an Indigenous Arctic people across Russia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland, descended from the Thule, with Inuktut language, sharing practices, four Canadian regions (Inuit Nunangat), land claims, and climate pressures.
Inuit languages
The Inuit languages are a chain of closely related varieties of the Eskaleut family forming a dialect continuum from Alaska to Greenland; Inuktitut is the largest variety, official in Nunavut.
Inuit literature
Inuit literature is the written and oral literary work of the Inuit across Arctic Canada, Greenland, and Alaska, with written writing emerging from the late 1960s in Inuktitut, English, and other languages.
Inuit narratives of Knud Rasmussen
The Inuit narratives of Knud Rasmussen are myths, songs, and oral histories recorded from Inuit storytellers across Arctic North America during the 1921–24 Fifth Thule Expedition.
Inuit oral literature
Inuit oral literature is the body of stories, songs, and spoken knowledge transmitted by word of mouth across the Arctic, including classic tales called unikkaaqtuat and drum-accompanied song-poems.
Inuit printmaking
Inuit printmaking is the tradition of stonecut and stencil prints developed by Inuit artists in the Canadian Arctic, most notably at Kinngait, from the late 1950s.
Inuit religion
Inuit religion, also called Inuit mythology, is the traditional animistic belief system of the Inuit of Greenland, Arctic Canada, and Alaska, centered on spirits and shamans.
Inuit sculpture
Inuit sculpture is the carved art of the Inuit of Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland; once ivory trade pieces, it became an internationally recognized stone-carving tradition after 1949.
Inuit sung poetry
Inuit sung poetry is the oral tradition of sung verse across the Inuit Arctic, performed with the frame drum and owned, exchanged, and inherited as personal property.
Inuit throat singing
Inuit throat singing, known in Inuktitut as katajjaq, is a vocal game in which two Inuit women face each other and exchange rhythmic guttural patterns until one laughs.
Inukai Tsuyoshi
Inukai Tsuyoshi (犬養毅) was a Japanese statesman who served as the 29th prime minister from December 1931 until his assassination in the May 15 Incident of 1932.
Inuksuk
Inuksuk (Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ, plural inuksuit; also inukshuk) is a stone landmark built by Inuit and other Arctic peoples, meaning "that which acts in the capacity of a human"; used for navigation, caribou drives, and memorials, and now a symbol of Nunavut and Canada.
Inuktitut
Inuktitut (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ), also called Inuktut, is an ergative, polysynthetic Inuit language of the Eskimo-Aleut family, official in Nunavut and the NWT, with 40,320 Canadian speakers in 2021 and syllabic and roman writing systems.
Inuktun Crawler
The Inuktun Crawler is a tethered, teleoperated tracked robot made by Inuktun Services Ltd. of Nanaimo, British Columbia, that inspects pipes, tanks, ship hulls, and other hazardous spaces.
Inula
Inula, a genus of Asteraceae herbs and shrubs with yellow flower heads, native from temperate Eurasia to Indo-China and Africa; includes elecampane (I. helenium), long used in traditional medicine, and is now largely reorganized into Pentanema.
Inulin
Inulin is a plant storage fructan of β-(2→1)-linked fructose chains, usually with a terminal glucose, found in chicory, Jerusalem artichoke, and over 36,000 plants; used as prebiotic fiber, fat and sugar replacer, and kidney function diagnostic.
Inulin clearance
Inulin clearance is a renal function test that measures the rate at which the kidneys remove inulin from plasma, long considered the gold standard for measuring glomerular filtration rate.