• illness

    See condition, disease, disorder, illness, syndrome

  • immunise, immunity, inoculate, vaccinate

    immunise: to deliberately administer an antigen to an individual in such a way that the individual develops an adaptive immune response to the antigen immune

  • immunity

    See immunise, immune, inoculate, vaccinate

  • Avoiding strings of premodifiers

    A sentence can be difficult to read when its topic is expressed in a dense string of descriptive words.

  • improve

    See enhance, improve, increase

  • incidence, prevalence

    incidence: the number of new cases (eg of disease) occurring in a population of stated size during a stated period of time prevalence: the number of cas

  • increase

    See enhance, improve, increase

  • infectious

    See communicable, contagious, infectious, infective, noncommunicable, transmissible

  • infective

    See communicable, contagious, infectious, infective, noncommunicable, transmissible

  • inflammable

    See flammable, inflammable, nonflammable

  • inhibit

    Inhibit can mean either ‘stop’ or ‘slow down’; care is therefore needed to avoid ambiguity.

  • inoculate

    See immunise, immune, inoculate, vaccinate

  • interval, period

    interval: a length of time between 2 specified points period: a specified portion of time

  • in vitro, in vivo

    in vitro: in an artificial environment (Latin for in glass) in vivo: in a living organism

  • Avoiding jargon and complex words

    Jargon and unnecessarily complex words can make meaning unclear.

  • in vivo

    See in vitro, in vivo

  • isolation, quarantine

    isolation: the separation of a person (or animal) who is ill from healthy people (or animals), to prevent the spread of disease quarantine: the separation fr

  • kill

    See cull, destroy, euthanase, kill, sacrifice, slaughter

  • law

    See hypothesis, law, theory

  • less

    See few, fewer, less

  • level

    See amount, concentration, level

  • locus

    See allele, gene, gene product, locus

  • mass, weight

    mass: the amount of matter that an object contains weight: how strongly the mass is pulled by gravity (eg an astronaut is weightless in space but has th

  • may

    See can, may, might

  • may be, maybe

    may be (verb): could possibly be The result may be surprising. maybe (adverb): perhaps Maybe the results will surprise you.