| education, professional | Formal education and training in preparation for the practice of a profession. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| education, professional, retraining | Educational programs for individuals who have been inactive in their profession, or who wish to regain unused skills. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, special | Education of the individual who markedly deviates intellectually, physically, socially, or emotionally from those considered to be normal, thus requiring special instruction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, veterinary | Use for general articles concerning veterinary medical education. (12 Dec 1998) |
| educational measurement | The assessing of academic or educational achievement. It includes all aspects of testing and test construction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| educational psychology | The application of psychology to education, especially to problems of teaching and learning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| educational status | Educational attainment or level of education of individuals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| educational technology | Systematic identification, development, organization, or utilization of educational resources and the management of these processes. It is occasionally used also in a more limited sense to describe the use of equipment-oriented techniques or audiovisual aids in educational settings. (12 Dec 1998) |
| educt | That which is educed, as by analysis. Origin: L. Eductum, fr. Educere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| edulcorant | Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony. See: Edulcorate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| edulcorate | 1. To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity. "Succory . . . Edulcorated with sugar and vinegar." (Evelyn) 2. <chemistry> To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify. Origin: L. E ou + dulcoratus, p. P. Of dulcorare to sweeten, fr. Dulcor sweetness, fr. Dulcis sweet: cf. F. Edulcorer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| edulcoration | 1. The act of sweetening or edulcorating. 2. <chemistry> The act of freeing from acids or any soluble substances, by affusions of water. Origin: Cf. F. Edulcoration. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Edward Jenner | <person> Jenner was the typical country practitioner, who wanted to better himself by furthering his education. He enrolled as an anatomy house pupil of John Hunter. Although his city colleagues stamped him as a lazy and rather dull person, he actually was a highly intelligent country physician. He became cognisant that milk maids, who developed pustules on their hands from milking cows did not get smallpox. So he used Sarah Nelmes, a dairy maid with cowpox pustules, as his donor to inoculate (vaccinate) 8-year-old James Phipps on May 14, l796. (Why did not this maid receive her due recognition ?) He waited until July 1, 1796 (1-1/2 months) at which time he challenged the youngster with the smallpox virus. The boy was totally protected without any symptoms whatsoever. Jenner continued to inoculate the people in his vicinity including his own children. The recipients were then challenged with smallpox and complete protection was noted. Edward Jenner published his results of 123 cases in 1796, and his discovery was rapidly accepted and popularised. By 1800, more than 6,000 people had been vaccinated. Catherine the Great, the beautiful Czarina of Russia, received her inoculation, for which she paid 12,000 pounds. Variola is the medical term for smallpox, whereas Varicella is chicken pox. Lived: 1749-1823. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Edward's syndrome | <paediatrics, syndrome> A congenital disorder caused by a baby having an extra copy of chromosome 18 (three instead of the normal two). Characteristics of the disorder include a large number of different malformed organs and malformed physical features of the face and skeletal structure. In most cases, the child dies before it is born, 90% of babies born live die within a year of birth. Symptoms may be less severe when the trisomy occurs after fertilization during mitosis in the zygote (10% of cases), than when the trisomy occurs during the meiosis which produced the egg or sperm (90% of cases). (09 Oct 1997) |
| edwards syndrome | <syndrome> This is trisomy 18 syndrome. There are three instead of the normal two chromosomes 18. Children with this condition have multiple malformations and mental retardation due to the extra chromosome 18. The children characteristically have low birth weight, small head (microcephaly), small jaw (micrognathia), malformations of the heart and kidneys, clenched fists with abnormal finger positioning, and malformed feet. The mental retardation is profound with the IQ too low to edven test. Nineteen out of 20 (95%) of these children die before their first birthday. The condition is named after the British physician and geneticist John Edwards who discovered the extra chromosome in 1960. (12 Dec 1998) |