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Eonism
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Eonism The term used by Havelock Ellis for the male cross-dressing syndromes now known as transvestophilia and transexualism.
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Transvestophilia
A paraphilia of the fetishistic/talismanic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and [dependent upon ]{contingent on} wearing clothing, especially underwear, of the other sex.
Transexualism
The condition of crossing over to live full-time in the role of the other sex, with hormonal and surgical sex reassignment. The term signifies a method of treatment and rehabilitation rather than a diagnostic entity. There are different biographical antecedents to sex reassignment, one of which may be paraphilic transvestism (transvestophilia). Transexualism itself is not a paraphilia. Behaviorally, the act of living and passing in the role of the opposite sex, before or after having attained hormonal, surgical, and legal sex reassignment; psychically, the condition of people who have the conviction that they belong to the opposite sex and are driven by a compulsion to have the body, appearance, and social status of the opposite sex.
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Endocrine gland
One of the body's ductless glands from which a hormone is secreted directly into the bloodstream.
Endogenous
Produced from within.
Endometrium
The lining of the uterus or womb. Structurally, it is a mucous membrane.
Endorphins
The general term to refer to all of the body's own endogenous morphinelike substances. In chemical structure, they are neuropeptides. They are active as neurotransmitters and neuromodulators.
Enkephalin
One of the endorphins, and the one that predominates in the brain. There are two basic types, methionine and leucine enkephalin.
Eonism
Ephebiatrics
That branch of health care that succeeds pediatrics and serves that age of adolescence and youth, prior to adulthood.
Ephebophilia
A paraphilia of the eligibilic/stigmatic type distinct from nepiophilia and pedophilia in that the age of the partner is postpubertal and adolescent. The technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition in which an older person impersonates an adolescent is paraphilic adolescentilism. Synonym, hebephilia, the condtition in which an adult is responsive to and dependent on the actuality or imagery of erotic/sexual activity with an adolescent boy or girl in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. An ephebophiliac may be of either sex. Ephebophilic activity may be replayed in fantasy during masturbation or copulation with an older partner.
Epicene
Common to both sexes; neither one nor the other.
Epididymitis
Inflammation and pain of the epididymis, the coiled tubular structure immediately adjacent to the testis through which sperm are transported to the vas deferens and the urethra.
Epistemology
The branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowing.
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Transvestophilia
A paraphilia of the fetishistic/talismanic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and [dependent upon ]{contingent on} wearing clothing, especially underwear, of the other sex.
Transexualism
The condition of crossing over to live full-time in the role of the other sex, with hormonal and surgical sex reassignment. The term signifies a method of treatment and rehabilitation rather than a diagnostic entity. There are different biographical antecedents to sex reassignment, one of which may be paraphilic transvestism (transvestophilia). Transexualism itself is not a paraphilia. Behaviorally, the act of living and passing in the role of the opposite sex, before or after having attained hormonal, surgical, and legal sex reassignment; psychically, the condition of people who have the conviction that they belong to the opposite sex and are driven by a compulsion to have the body, appearance, and social status of the opposite sex.
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Endocrine gland
One of the body's ductless glands from which a hormone is secreted directly into the bloodstream.
Endogenous
Produced from within.
Endometrium
The lining of the uterus or womb. Structurally, it is a mucous membrane.
Endorphins
The general term to refer to all of the body's own endogenous morphinelike substances. In chemical structure, they are neuropeptides. They are active as neurotransmitters and neuromodulators.
Enkephalin
One of the endorphins, and the one that predominates in the brain. There are two basic types, methionine and leucine enkephalin.
Eonism
Ephebiatrics
That branch of health care that succeeds pediatrics and serves that age of adolescence and youth, prior to adulthood.
Ephebophilia
A paraphilia of the eligibilic/stigmatic type distinct from nepiophilia and pedophilia in that the age of the partner is postpubertal and adolescent. The technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition in which an older person impersonates an adolescent is paraphilic adolescentilism. Synonym, hebephilia, the condtition in which an adult is responsive to and dependent on the actuality or imagery of erotic/sexual activity with an adolescent boy or girl in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. An ephebophiliac may be of either sex. Ephebophilic activity may be replayed in fantasy during masturbation or copulation with an older partner.
Epicene
Common to both sexes; neither one nor the other.
Epididymitis
Inflammation and pain of the epididymis, the coiled tubular structure immediately adjacent to the testis through which sperm are transported to the vas deferens and the urethra.
Epistemology
The branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowing.
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