| eggplant | <botany> A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| eggs | Animal reproductive bodies, or the contents thereof, used as food. The concept is differentiated from ovum, the anatomic or physiologic entity. (12 Dec 1998) |
| eggshell | 1. The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell. 2. <zoology> A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| eggshell calcification | A thin layer of calcification around an intrathoracic lymph node, usually in silicosis, seen on a chest radiograph. (05 Mar 2000) |
| eggshell lymph node calcification | <radiology> Silicosis, sarcoid, treated Hodgkin's lymphoma (12 Dec 1998) |
| egilopical | <medicine> Pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with, an aegilops, or tumour in the corner of the eye. See: aegilops. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| eglandular | Without glands. (09 Oct 1997) |
| eglandulous | Without glands. Origin: L. E, without, + gland or glandula (05 Mar 2000) |
| eglantine | <botany> A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colours. The sweetbrier (R. Rubiginosa). Milton, in the following lines, has applied the name to some twinning plant, perhaps the honeysuckle. "Through the sweetbrier, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine." (L'Allegro, 47) "In our early writers and in Gerarde and the herbalists, it was a shrub with white flowers." Origin: F. Eglantine, fr. OF. Aiglent brier, hip tree, fr. (assumed) LL. Acuculentus, fr. A dim. Of L. Acus needle; cf. F. Aiguille needle. Cf. Aglet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| eglin C | A proteinase inhibitor (70 amino acids) from leech. (18 Nov 1997) |
| egling | <zoology> The European perch when two years old. Origin: Etymol. Uncertain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Eglis' glands | Small, inconstant mucous gland's of the ureter and renal pelvis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ego | Origin: L, I] The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; opposed to non-ego. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ego analysis | Psychoanalytic study of the ways in which the ego deals with intrapsychic conflicts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ego identity | The ego's sense of its own identity. (05 Mar 2000) |