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Eiken syndrome

Eiken syndrome (EKNS, Eiken skeletal dysplasia, OMIM 600002) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia from biallelic PTH1R mutations, marked by severely delayed ossification of epiphyses, pelvis, hands, and feet, abnormal bone modeling, mild short stature, and mild PTH resistance.

Eikenella

Eikenella, a genus of gram-negative facultatively anaerobic rods (type species Eikenella corrodens, formerly Bacteroides corrodens) in family Neisseriaceae; human oral and intestinal flora, HACEK endocarditis and human bite infections, clindamycin-resistant.

Eikenella corrodens

Eikenella corrodens (HACEK group, Neisseriaceae) is a fastidious facultative Gram-negative rod of human oral flora, named for corroding agar colonies; it causes human bite wound infections, head and neck abscesses, and rare endocarditis.

Eiko Ishioka (石岡瑛子)

Eiko Ishioka (石岡瑛子, 1938–2012), Japanese graphic designer, art director, and Oscar-winning costume designer; Parco advertising, Miles Davis's Tutu, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Sep 21, 2026

Eiko Ohtsuka

Eiko Ohtsuka (大塚榮子) is a Japanese nucleic acids chemist, professor emerita at Hokkaido University, known for synthesizing RNA and DNA and for work underlying today's nucleic acid medicines.

Eikoh Hosoe

Eikoh Hosoe (細江英公, born Toshihiro Hosoe, 1933–2024) was a Japanese photographer and filmmaker, a defining figure of postwar Japanese photography known for the Ordeal by Roses series with Yukio Mishima.

Oct 15, 2026

Eikonal approximation

The eikonal approximation is a high-energy, small-angle method for computing scattering amplitudes, treating the projectile's path as a straight line with the interaction acting as an accumulated phase.

Eiksund Tunnel

The Eiksund Tunnel is a subsea road tunnel in Møre og Romsdal, Norway, opened in 2008 and the world's deepest undersea road tunnel at 287 m.

Eikyō Rebellion

The Eikyō Rebellion (永享の乱) was a 1438–1439 conflict in which Ashikaga Mochiuji, the Kamakura kubō governing the Kantō, rose against shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori and was destroyed.

Eilat (אילת)

Eilat (אילת), Israel's southernmost city on the Gulf of Eilat bordering Egypt and Jordan, founded 1950; a free-trade-zone resort of about 52,000-57,000 people with a VAT exemption, tourism-based economy, and famous coral reefs.

Eildon Hill hill fort

Eildon Hill hill fort (Eildon Hill North) is a large prehistoric contour hillfort near Melrose, Scottish Borders; about 16 hectares, nearly 500 hut circles, Late Bronze Age and Roman Iron Age occupation, among Scotland's largest hillforts.

Eilean Àird

Eilean Àird (Eilean Aird) is a small island in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, near Jura, at 55.96904 N, 5.91269 W, elevation 6 m, grid NR559820, near Lagg, Tarbert, and Loch Tarbert.

Eilean Cubhraidh

Eilean Cubhraidh (Eilean Cùbhraidh) is a small islet on the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles, Scotland, near Sgàparaid and Lochganvich, at 58.14235°N, 6.6585°W, elevation 53 m; the Gaelic name combines eilean (island) with cubhraidh (scented).

Eilean Donan

Eilean Donan ("Island of Donan") is a Scottish castle on a tidal island where Lochs Long, Duich, and Alsh meet. Ruined in 1719 after a Spanish Jacobite garrison, it was rebuilt 1912–1932 by John MacRae-Gilstrap and opened to the public in 1955.

Eileen (film)

Eileen is a 2023 psychological thriller directed by William Oldroyd, adapted by Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel from her 2015 Man Booker-shortlisted novel. Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway star; Sundance 2023 premiere, NEON release, 97 minutes, 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Eileen Atkins

Dame Eileen Atkins (born 16 June 1934, London) is an English stage, film and television actress and screenwriter, co-creator with Jean Marsh of Upstairs, Downstairs and The House of Eliott, winner of three Olivier Awards, a 2008 Emmy for Cranford, and four-time Tony nominee.

Eileen Brennan

Eileen Brennan (Verla Eileen Regina Brennen, 1932-2013), American character actress. Obie-winning Little Mary Sunshine star; Oscar-nominated as Capt. Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin, Emmy winner for its TV series, Mrs. Peacock in Clue.

Eileen Chang

Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing) was a Chinese novelist and essayist of 1940s Shanghai and Hong Kong, known for The Golden Cangue and Love in a Fallen City.

Sep 21, 2026

Eileen D. Adamson

Eileen D. Adamson, also published as E. D. Adamson, is a molecular biologist and professor at the Burnham Institute in San Diego who studied teratocarcinoma stem cell differentiation.

Eileen Davidson

Eileen Davidson, born 1959, American soap opera actress and author; played Ashley Abbott on The Young and the Restless and five simultaneous characters on Days of Our Lives; two-time Daytime Emmy winner (2014, 2018), Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member, and mystery novelist.

Eileen Derbyshire

Eileen Derbyshire (born 1931, Urmston, Manchester) is a retired English actress, MBE, who played Emily Bishop in Coronation Street from 27 January 1961 to 2016 with a 2019 cameo, the show's longest-serving female cast member.

Sep 21, 2026

Eileen E. M. Furlong

Eileen E. M. Furlong is a developmental genomics biologist who heads the Genome Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg, known for work on developmental enhancers and the 2022 Leibniz Prize.

Eileen Fulton

Eileen Fulton (Margaret Elizabeth McLarty, 1933–2025), American actress who played Lisa Grimaldi on As the World Turns from 1960 to 2010, daytime TV's first vixen, also Our Private World, cabaret singer, mystery novelist.

Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was an Irish-born furniture designer, lacquer artist, and architect based in France, whose villa E-1027 and tubular-steel furniture are icons of the Modern movement.

Eileen Gu (谷爱凌)

Eileen Gu (谷爱凌, Gu Ailing), born 2003 in San Francisco, is a freestyle skier competing for China in halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air; six Olympic starts, three golds and three silvers, most decorated Olympic freestyle skier.

Eileen Heckart

Eileen Heckart (Anna Eileen Herbert, 1919-2001) was an American character actress of stage, film, and TV. Oscar winner for Butterflies Are Free (1972), Golden Globe for The Bad Seed, Emmy for Love & War (1994), special Tony (2000), final role The Waverly Gallery.