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Hyper Kinetic Condition: A disease-illness or health condition caused or contributed by excessive exercise.

Hypertonicity: (hi-per-to-nis-ih-te) Excessive tension of muscles.

Hypertonic: A solution having a high concentration of solute.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP): The protocol that dictates the methods browsers and servers use to communicate over the Internet. HTTP allows a web browser to request HTML documents from a Web server.

Hypertext Novel: Also called hyperfiction, a hypertext novel is one written using some variant of HTML programming languages and published online or on CD-ROM. The hypertext code allows a reader to click on . . . View Full Definition

Hypertrophy: Growth of a muscle as a result of an increase in the size of its cells.

Hypokinetic Disease: A condition or disease resulting from a sedentary lifestyle or too little activity. Examples include obesity, diabetes, back pains, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, etc. ...

Iso Kinetic: Exercise Isotonic exercise in which there is ACCOMMODATING RESISTANCE. Also refers to constant speed. Nautilus and Cybex are two types of iso kinetic machines, where machine varies amount of . . . View Full Definition

Intersex Condition: A condition in which an individual shows intermingling, in various degrees, of the characteristics of each sex, including physical form, reproductive organs, and sexual behavior.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC): Meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from clouds, and ceiling less than minima specified for visual meteorological conditions (VMC).