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Elevance Renewable Sciences

Elevance Renewable Sciences was a renewable specialty-chemicals manufacturer in Woodridge, Illinois, founded in 2007 as a Cargill and Materia spinoff, converting natural oils into waxes and other chemicals via olefin metathesis.

Elevar India

Elevar India is the India-focused early-growth impact venture franchise of Elevar Equity, a Seattle venture capital firm founded in 2008 that invests in companies serving low-income customers.

Elevara Medicines

Elevara Medicines is a London-based clinical-stage biotechnology company developing ELV001, an oral CDK4/6 inhibitor licensed from Japan's Teijin Pharma, as a therapy for rheumatoid arthritis.

ELEVATE trial

ELEVATE trial (NCT04340349), a Mexican randomized double-blind placebo-controlled Early Phase 1 trial testing hydroxychloroquine 200 mg/day plus bromhexine 8 mg/8h for 60 days to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthcare workers; no results posted.

ELEVATE UC 12 trial

ELEVATE UC 12 (NCT03996369, APD334-302) was Arena Pharmaceuticals' phase 3, double-blind trial of etrasimod 2 mg daily vs placebo for 12-week induction in moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis; 354 randomized, remission 24.8% vs 15.2%.

ELEVATE UC 52 trial

ELEVATE UC 52 (NCT03945188), phase 3 trial of etrasimod 2 mg daily for ulcerative colitis; 12-week induction plus 40-week maintenance, 433 randomized, supporting 2023 FDA approval of Velsipity.

Elevated alkaline phosphatase

Elevated alkaline phosphatase (raised ALP, hyperphosphatasemia): serum elevation of a multi-tissue ectoenzyme, usually from bone (osteoblastic disease) or liver (cholestasis), also placenta and intestine; evaluated by GGT and isoenzyme fractionation.

Elevated blood glucose level

Elevated blood glucose level, or hyperglycemia, is excessive blood glucose, classified in ICD-11 as MA18.0. It spans prediabetes (FPG 100–125 mg/dL) to diabetes (FPG ≥126 mg/dL, A1C ≥6.5%) and causes DKA and hyperosmolar state.

Elevated C-reactive protein

Elevated C-reactive protein (raised CRP, hs-CRP elevation; ICD-11 MA14.15) is a nonspecific blood marker of inflammation from infection, trauma, or chronic disease; normal below 0.3 mg/dL, marked above 10 mg/dL.

Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate

Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR, sed rate, Westergren sedimentation rate): red cells settle faster than normal in one hour, a nonspecific marker of inflammation; ICD-11 MA1A.0.

Elevated mood

Elevated mood (ICD-11 MB24.8, 高揚気分) is a symptom of persistently elated or expansive mood, coded under mood/affect signs; pathological when persistent and impairing, it is the entry feature of manic episodes in bipolar I disorder.

Elevated plus maze

The elevated plus maze is a widely used rodent test of anxiety-like behavior, in which avoidance of an elevated maze's open arms measures anxiety and drug effects.

Elevated transaminases

Elevated transaminases (hypertransaminasemia): raised serum ALT and AST, found in about 10-20% of people. Main causes are fatty liver disease and alcohol; AST/ALT ratio over 2 suggests alcohol-related injury, under 1 NAFLD.

Elevation

Elevation is the height of a point above a vertical datum such as NAVD 88 or the geoid. Measured by leveling, GNSS, lidar, and radar DEMs like SRTM and Copernicus DEM.

Elevation Capital

Elevation Capital, formerly SAIF Partners India, is an India-focused early-stage venture capital firm founded by Ravi Adusumalli and co-led with Mukul Arora, known for early investments in Paytm, Swiggy, and Meesho.

Elevation Church

Elevation Church is a nondenominational multi-site megachurch headquartered in Matthews, North Carolina, founded in 2006 by Steven Furtick, with about 20 campuses, 17,000 weekly attendees, and the worship brand Elevation Worship.

Elevation Rhythm

Elevation Rhythm, also ELEVATION RHYTHM, is a youth worship music collective formed 2019 at Elevation Church, Charlotte, NC, offshoot of Elevation Worship; albums Growing Pains, This Is the Gospel, Victory Lap, and WASHED (2026), with first No. 1 single "WASHED."

Elevation Worship

Elevation Worship is the worship band of Elevation Church, a Charlotte, North Carolina megachurch founded in 2006 by pastor Steven Furtick; its songs have topped Christian charts and won a Grammy.

Elevations RTC

Elevations RTC, formerly Island View RTC (rebranded 2014), is a for-profit residential treatment center in Syracuse, Utah, for adolescents of all genders ages 13-17/18, owned by Family Help & Wellness, marked by licensing violations, lawsuits, and abuse allegations.

Elevator

An elevator, also called a lift, is a vertical transport vehicle carrying passengers or goods between building floors, made practical by Elisha Otis's 1853 safety brake.

Elevator (aeronautics)

The elevator is the hinged surface on an aircraft's horizontal stabilizer used to control pitch, one of the three primary flight controls since the Wright brothers' 1902 glider.

Elevator Action

Elevator Action (エレベーター・アクション) is Taito's 1983 arcade spy platform-shooter starring Agent 17, codename Otto, who collects documents from red doors in a 30-story building, uses elevators as weapons, and spawned the Elevator Action Returns sequel and many ports.

Elevator pitch

An elevator pitch, also called an elevator speech, is a short spoken introduction of 30 to 60 seconds covering who you are, what you do, and why it matters.

Elevator to the Gallows

Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) is Louis Malle's 1958 debut feature, a French noir starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet with an improvised one-night Miles Davis score; Prix Louis-Delluc 1957.

Eleven (film)

Eleven is a 2025 Indian Tamil-Telugu bilingual slasher film directed by Lokkesh Ajls. It stars Naveen Chandra as a cop investigating a nyctophobic serial killer.

Eleven (Stranger Things)

Eleven (Jane Ives, later Jane Hopper), called El, is the telekinetic protagonist of Netflix's Stranger Things (2016–2025), played by Millie Bobby Brown; born to MKUltra subject Terry Ives, raised in Hawkins Lab as 011, and left with an ambiguous fate in the series finale.

Eleven Days (film)

Eleven Days refers to two films: a 2018 Australian adventure drama by Jaginder Singh about a boy searching the outback for his brother, and a 2026 Peter Landesman prison siege thriller starring Taylor Kitsch and Diego Luna, based on the 1974 Carrasco siege in Huntsville, Texas.

Eleven Madison Park

Eleven Madison Park (EMP) is Daniel Humm's three-Michelin-star restaurant at 11 Madison Avenue, NYC; world's best restaurant 2017, fully vegan 2021–2025, reintroduced meat and fish October 2025.

Eleven Missing Days

Eleven Missing Days is an upcoming British noir mystery drama film directed by Bertie Ellwood, starring Felicity Jones as Agatha Christie and Vincent Cassel, dramatizing her real eleven-day 1926 disappearance, based on Jared Cade's 1998 book, in post-production as of October 2026.

Eleven Multilingual v2

Eleven Multilingual v2 is a text-to-speech and voice-cloning model released by ElevenLabs in August 2023, supporting 29 languages and still used as the quality reference in 2026.