| EFAD | essential fatty acid deficiency |
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| EH | enlarged heart; external hyperalimentation; epidermolytic hyperkeratosis; epoxide hydratase; essenti... |
| EHC | enterohepatic circulation; enterohepatic clearance; essential hypercholesterolemia; ethylhydrocuprei... |
| EHL | effective half-life; electrohydraulic lipotripsy; endogenous hyperlipidemia; Environmental Health La... |
| EHT | electrohydrothermoelectrode; essential hypertension |
| neuropathic albuminuria | Albuminuria associated with epilepsy or other convulsive disorders, trauma to the brain, and cerebral haemorrhage. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| dietetic albuminuria | <nephrology> The excretion of protein in the urine following the ingestion of certain foods. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermittent albuminuria | <nephrology> Functional albuminuria occurring at intervals, such as cyclic albuminuria or albuminuria of athletes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| orthostatic albuminuria | The appearance of albumin in the urine when the patient is erect and its disappearance when recumbent. Synonym: orthostatic proteinuria, postural proteinuria, postural albuminuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transient albuminuria | Albuminuria of a temporary or short-lived nature. (05 Mar 2000) |
| false albuminuria | Albuminuria resulting from the presence of blood escaping somewhere in the urinary tract, of chyle, or of some other albuminous fluid, not caused by filtration of albumin from the blood through the kidneys. Synonym: false albuminuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| febrile albuminuria | Albuminuria associated with fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| functional albuminuria | A collective term denoting types of benign albuminuria that are associated with physical exertion or other conditions in which there are physiologic changes such as during pregnancy or adolescence. Synonym: physiologic albuminuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lordotic albuminuria | So-called on the theory that the albuminuria results from pressure due to lordosis in the lumbar spine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign essential tremor | A benign tremor inherited as a dominant character; it may be a rapid oscillation resembling that seen in thyrotoxicosis, a coarse tremor during rest and inhibited by a voluntary effort, or one which appears only upon movement. Synonym: benign essential tremor, familial tremor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| drugs, essential | Drugs considered essential to meet the health needs of a population as well as to control drug costs. (world health organization action programme on essential drugs, 1994, p3) (12 Dec 1998) |
| osteolysis, essential | Syndromes of bone destruction where the cause is not obvious such as neoplasia, infection, or trauma. The destruction follows various patterns: massive (gorham disease), multicentric (hajdu-cheney syndrome, winchester syndrome), or carpal/tarsal. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Eagle's minimum essential medium | A tissue culture medium similar to Eagle's basal medium but with different amounts and a few exclusions (e.g., antibiotics and phenol red). (05 Mar 2000) |
| essential | 1. Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. "Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness." (Hawthorne) 2. Hence, really existing; existent. "Is it true, that thou art but a a name, And no essential thing?" (Webster (1623)) 3. Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary. "Judgment's more essential to a general Than courage." (Denham) "How to live? that is the essential question for us." (H. Spencer) 4. Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil. "Mine own essential horror." 5. Necessary; indispensable; said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones. 6. <medicine> Idiopathic; independent of other diseases. <biology> Essential character, a class of volatile oils, extracted from plants, fruits, or flowers, having each its characteristic odour, and hot burning taste. They are used in essences, perfumery, etc, and include many varieties of compounds; as lemon oil is a terpene, oil of bitter almonds an aldehyde, oil of wintergreen an ethereal salt, etc.; called also volatile oils in distinction from the fixed or nonvolatile. Origin: Cf. F. Essentiel. See Essence. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| essential amino acid | <biochemistry> Those amino acids that cannot be synthesised by an organism and must therefore be present in the diet. The term is often applied anthropocentrically to those amino acids required by humans (Ileu, Leu, Lys, Met, Phe, Thr, Try, & Val), though rats need two more (Arg & His). (18 Nov 1997) |