| echophony | Echophonia A duplication of the voice sound occasionally heard during auscultation of the chest. Origin: echo + G. Phone, voice (05 Mar 2000) |
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| echophotony | The mental association of sound tones with particular colours. Origin: echo + G. Phos (phot-), light, + tonos, tone (05 Mar 2000) |
| echophrasia | Synonym: echolalia. Origin: echo + phrasis, speech (05 Mar 2000) |
| echopraxia | Involuntary imitation of movements made by another. See: echopathy. Synonym: echokinesis, echokinesia, echomatism, echomotism. Origin: echo + G. Praxis, action (05 Mar 2000) |
| echoscope | <instrument> An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax. Origin: Gr, sound + -scope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| echothiophate iodide | <chemical> A potent, long-acting cholinesterase inhibitor used as a miotic in the treatment of glaucoma. Pharmacological action: cholinesterase inhibitor, miotics, parasympathomimetic. Chemical name: Ethanaminium, 2-((diethoxyphosphinyl)thio)-N,N,N-trimethyl-, iodide (12 Dec 1998) |
| echovirus | <virology> A group of human picornaviruses found in the gastrointestinal tract. There are many inapparent infections, but certain of the serotypes are associated with fever, upper respiratory infections, aseptic meningitis and pericarditis. Echo is derived from enteric cytopathic human orphan, where orphan implies that they are not associated with any disease, though some are now known to cause disease in humans. Origin: Acronym of enteric cytopathogenic human orphan virus. (08 Mar 2000) |
| Echovirus 28 | <virology> Reclassified as Rhinovirus type 1. (05 Mar 2000) |
| echovirus 6 | <virology> A species of enterovirus that has caused outbreaks of aseptic meningitis in children and adults. (12 Dec 1998) |
| echovirus 9 | <virology> A species of enterovirus associated with outbreaks of aseptic meningitis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Eck fistula | <embryology, surgery> Transposition of the portal circulation to the systemic by making an anastomosis between the vena cava and portal vein and then ligating the latter close to the liver. (08 Mar 2000) |
| Eck, Nikolai | <person> Russian physiologist, 1849-1917. See: Eck fistula, reverse Eck fistula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ecker's fissure | A fissure between the petrous part of the temporal bone and the basilar part of the occipital bone that extends anteromedially from the jugular foramen; includes the jugular foramem (at its posterior end). Synonym: fissura petro-occipitalis, Ecker's fissure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ecker, Alexander | <person> German anatomist, 1816-1887. See: Ecker's fissure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ecker, Enrique | <person> U.S. Bacteriologist, 1887-1966. See: Rees-Ecker fluid. (05 Mar 2000) |