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A Writer's Dictionary:

ID Definition


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ID
abbreviation
    1. US state.
      Idaho.
      Form: Id.
    2. Identification, or identity.
      Example: ID card
    3. medicine.
      Infectious diseases.
    4. medicine.
      Intradermal, or intradermally.
      Form: i.d.



id
noun
    1. psychoanal.
      In Freudian theory: the part of the unconscious mind that is regarded as the source of primitive biological instincts and urges for survival and reproduction. Compare ego, superego.
Etymology: 1920s: Latin, meaning ‘it'.




intradermal
adj
    1. Within the dermis.
    2. Said of an injection, etc: administered just below the surface of the skin, eg to test for an allergy. Compare subcutaneous.
Etymology: 19c.



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