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Epicene
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Epicene Common to both sexes; neither one nor the other.
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Epicanthal fold
A fold of skin that comes down across the inner angle (canthus) of the eye. The epicanthal fold is more common in children with Down syndrome and other birth defects than normal children and so is of value in diagnosis. Although some dictionaries state that this eye fold is found in peoples of Asian origin, this is not true. The normal Asian eyefold is continuous with the lower edge of the upper eyelid and actually appears distinctly different than a true epicanthal fold.
Epicapsular stars
Remnants left on the eye of the hyaloid canal, from development in the womb.
Epicardium
The membrane that covers the outside of the heart.
Epicondylitis
Enthesopathy at humeral epicondyle. May be medial (golfer's elbow) or lateral (tennis elbow).
Epicort
Epicort is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): hydrocortisone.
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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
The term used by Havelock Ellis for the male cross-dressing syndromes now known as transvestophilia and transexualism.
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.
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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.
Eponym
The name of someone so prominently connected with a time, place, group, or event as to become a figurative or symbolic designation for it.
Erotic
Pertaining to sexual love or, more particularly, to its imagistic expression in daydream, fantasy, or dream, either autonomously or in response to a perceptual stimulus, and either alone or with one or more partners.
Erotic apathy
A hypophilic condition or syndrome, variable in etiology, of defective ability to experience sexuoerotic arousal under normally conducive circumstances; misnamed lack of sexual desire.
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Epicanthal fold
A fold of skin that comes down across the inner angle (canthus) of the eye. The epicanthal fold is more common in children with Down syndrome and other birth defects than normal children and so is of value in diagnosis. Although some dictionaries state that this eye fold is found in peoples of Asian origin, this is not true. The normal Asian eyefold is continuous with the lower edge of the upper eyelid and actually appears distinctly different than a true epicanthal fold.
Epicapsular stars
Remnants left on the eye of the hyaloid canal, from development in the womb.
Epicardium
The membrane that covers the outside of the heart.
Epicondylitis
Enthesopathy at humeral epicondyle. May be medial (golfer's elbow) or lateral (tennis elbow).
Epicort
Epicort is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): hydrocortisone.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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
The term used by Havelock Ellis for the male cross-dressing syndromes now known as transvestophilia and transexualism.
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
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.
Eponym
The name of someone so prominently connected with a time, place, group, or event as to become a figurative or symbolic designation for it.
Erotic
Pertaining to sexual love or, more particularly, to its imagistic expression in daydream, fantasy, or dream, either autonomously or in response to a perceptual stimulus, and either alone or with one or more partners.
Erotic apathy
A hypophilic condition or syndrome, variable in etiology, of defective ability to experience sexuoerotic arousal under normally conducive circumstances; misnamed lack of sexual desire.
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