| e | base of natural logarithms, approximately 2.7182818285; egg transfer; ejection; electric charge; ele... |
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| EA | early antigen; educational age; egg albumin; electric affinity; electrical activity; electroacupunct... |
| EAP | electric acupuncture; employee assistance program; epiallopregnanolone; Epstein-Barr associated prot... |
| EBS | elastic back strap; electric brain stimulation; Emergency Bed Service; epidermolysis bullosa simplex... |
| EF | ectopic focus; edema factor; ejection fraction; elastic fibril; electric field; elongation factor; e... |
| electric bath | A bath in which the medium is charged with electricity. Synonym: hydroelectric bath. Therapeutic application of static electricity, with the patient placed on an insulated platform. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| electric cardiac pacemaker | An electric device that can substitute for the normal cardiac pacemaker, controlling the heart's rhythm by artificial electric discharges. Synonym: electronic pacemaker. (05 Mar 2000) |
| electric cataract | A cataract caused by contact with a high-power electric current, or a lightning bolt. Synonym: cataracta electrica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| electric cautery | <procedure> The cauterisation of tissue using electric current to generate heat. (27 Sep 1997) |
| electric chorea | Progressively fatal spasmodic disorder, possibly of malarial origin, occurring chiefly in Italy, a severe form of Sydenham's chorea, in which the spasms are rapid and of a specially jerky character. (05 Mar 2000) |
| electric conductivity | The capacity to conduct an electric current. Conductivity is the reciprocal of resistance. (12 Dec 1998) |
| electric countershock | An electric shock applied to the heart to terminate a disturbance of its rhythm. (12 Dec 1998) |
| electric dermatome | See: electrodermatome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| electric field | <radiobiology> A property of a patch of space which causes the acceleration of electric charges located at that patch of space. The acceleration is given by a = qE/m, where q is the charge, E the electric field vector, and m the mass of the particle. Electric fields are generated by the presence of charges and/or the time variation of magnetic fields (09 Oct 1997) |
| electric fish | Fishes which generate an electric discharge. The voltage of the discharge varies from weak to strong in various groups of fish. Electric organ and electroplax are of prime interest in this group. They occur in more than one family. (12 Dec 1998) |
| electric impedance | The opposition to the flow of an alternating current, which is the vector sum of ohmic resistance plus additional resistance, if any, due to induction, to capacity, or to both. (12 Dec 1998) |
| electric injuries | Injuries caused by electric currents. The concept excludes electric burns (burns, electric), but includes accidental electrocution and electric shock. (12 Dec 1998) |
| electric organ | In about 250 species of electric fishes, modified muscle fibres forming disklike multinucleate plates arranged in stacks like batteries in series and embedded in a gelatinous matrix. A large torpedo ray may have half a million plates. Muscles in different parts of the body may be modified, i.e., the trunk and tail in the electric eel, the hyobranchial apparatus in the electric ray, and extrinsic eye muscles in the stargazers. Powerful electric organs emit pulses in brief bursts several times a second. They serve to stun prey and ward off predators. A large torpedo ray can produce of shock of more than 200 volts, capable of stunning a human. (storer et al., general zoology, 6th ed, p672) (12 Dec 1998) |
| electric retinopathy | A macular burn from excessive exposure to sunlight or other intense light (e.g., the flash of a short circuit); characterised subjectively by reduced visual acuity. See: solar maculopathy. Synonym: electric retinopathy, solar retinopathy. Origin: photo-+ retina, + G. Pathos, suffering (05 Mar 2000) |
| electric shock | A sudden violent impression caused by the passage of a current of electricity through any portion of the body. (05 Mar 2000) |