title: IMD
text: # IMD
  
  Imd or IMD may refer to:
  
  ## As a word
  
  * Imd, a giantess in Norse mythology, one of the nine Mothers of Heimdall
  
  ## As an initialism
  
  ### Institution or location
  
  * India Meteorological Department, the Indian government agency for meteorology and seismology
  * Indian Medical Department, the name of the medical department of the Indian army in 19th-20th century
  * Interactive Media Division, a division of the School of Cinematic Art, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
  * International Institute for Management Development (IMD), a business school located in Lausanne, Switzerland
  * International MTM Directorate, a federation of national MTM (methods-time measurement) associations
  * Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, the organization responsible for the Darmstädter Ferienkurse
  
  ### Medicine
  
  * Invasive meningococcal disease
  * Immune-mediated disease, any immune disorder or any disease secondary to immune responses
  * Inherited metabolic disorder, an inborn error of metabolism from inherited mutation (as opposed to one from de novo mutation)
  * Immunomodulatory drug (immunomodulator), a drug that adjusts immune function (Immunotherapy § Immunomodulators)
  * Immunodeficiency, weakness of the immune system
  * Immune-mediated diabetes, any type of diabetes with immune responses as a major causative factor
  * Immunizing dose, the dose sufficient to immunize (and $IMD_{50}$ is the median value)
  * The Immune deficiency pathway (Imd pathway) of insects
  
  ### Technology
  
  * Indigo Magic Desktop, the default Desktop Environment for IRIX (a UNIX variant by Silicon Graphics), in versions 5.1–6.4
  * Insulation monitoring device, a protection device or circuit in electric systems
  * Intermodulation distortion, the result of two (or more) signals of different frequencies being mixed together in a signal processing path, forming additional, unwanted signals
  
  ### Other
  
  * Illinois Medical District, a special-use zoning district on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA
  * Index of Multiple Deprivation
  * International Management District in Greater Houston
  * International Media Distribution
  * International Men's Day, an international event
  * International Museum Day, a celebration that is held each year on or about 18 May
  