| empale | To make pale. "No bloodless malady empales their face." (G. Fletcher) Origin: Pref. Em- (L. In) + pale: cf. OF. Empalir. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| empasm | A dusting powder. Origin: G. Empasma, fr. Em-passo, to sprinkle on (05 Mar 2000) |
| empathic | Relating to or marked by empathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| empathic index | The degree of emotional understanding or empathy experienced by a health services provider or other person concerning another person, more particularly of a sufferer from some emotional or somatic condition. (05 Mar 2000) |
| empathise | To feel empathy in relation to another person; to put oneself in another's place. (05 Mar 2000) |
| empathy | An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behaviour of another person. It should be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical. It includes caring, which is the demonstration of an awareness of and a concern for the good of others. (12 Dec 1998) |
| emperipolesis | Active penetration of one cell by another, which remains intact; observed in tissue cultures in which polymorphonuclear leukocytes have entered macrophages and subsequently left. Origin: G. En (em), inside, + peri, around, + poleomai, to wander about (05 Mar 2000) |
| emperor | The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; a title of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of Austria; the emperor or Czar of Russia. <zoology> Emperor goose, a large, strong British butterfly (Apatura iris). Origin: OF. Empereor, empereour, F. Empereur, L. Imperator, fr. Imperare to command; in in + parare to prepare, order. See Parade, and cf. Imperative, Empress. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| empery | Empire; sovereignty; dominion. "Struggling for my woman's empery." (Mrs. Browning) Origin: L. Imperium, influenced by OF. Emperie, empire. See Empire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| emphasis | Origin: L, fr. Gr. Significance, force of expression, fr. To show in, indicate; in + to show. See In, and Phase. 1. A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience. "The province of emphasis is so much more important than accent, that the customary seat of the latter is changed, when the claims of emphasis require it." (E. Porter) 2. A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis. "External objects stand before us . . . In all the life and emphasis of extension, figure, and colour." (Sir W. Hamilton) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| emphlysis | An obsolete term for a vesicular eruption, such as pemphigus. Origin: G. En, in, + phlysis, an eruption, fr. Phlyo, to boil over (05 Mar 2000) |
| emphractic | <medicine> Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin. Origin: Gr. Obstructing, fr. To block up. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| emphraxis | 1. A clogging or obstruction of the mouth of the sweat gland. 2. An impaction. Origin: G. A stoppage (05 Mar 2000) |
| emphysema | <chest medicine> A pathological accumulation of air in tissues or organs, applied especially to such a condition of the lungs. (18 Nov 1997) |
| emphysematous | <medicine> Pertaining to, or of the nature of, emphysema; swelled; bloated. Origin: Cf. F. Emphysemateux. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |