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Emergency ultrasound
Emergency ultrasound, often called point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), is bedside ultrasound performed and interpreted by the treating clinician to answer specific questions, such as whether a trauma patient has internal bleeding.
Emergency vaccination (animal disease)
Emergency vaccination is the deliberate use of vaccination during an animal disease outbreak to slow or stop spread, mainly for foot-and-mouth disease and similar highly contagious diseases.
Emergency vehicle lighting
Emergency vehicle lighting, also known as police lights, is the flashing warning lamps fitted to police, fire, and ambulance vehicles to alert motorists and pedestrians.
Emergency vehicle preemption
Emergency vehicle preemption is a traffic signal mode that gives approaching emergency vehicles the right of way, cutting response times by up to 50 percent.
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99-645 (16 U.S.C. ch. 59), a US wetland conservation law: defines wetlands by hydric soils, hydrophytic vegetation and hydrology, opens Land and Water Conservation Fund money for wetland acquisition, and creates the National Wetlands Priority Conservation Plan.
Emergency!
Emergency! (1972-1979) is the NBC medical drama created by Jack Webb and Robert A. Cinader about LA County Fire Department paramedics Johnny Gage and Roy DeSoto of Station 51, credited with spurring US paramedic programs and authorizing legislation.
Emergent abilities debate
The emergent abilities debate is a 2022–2023 machine-learning dispute over whether large language models gain sharp, unpredictable capability jumps as they scale, or whether those jumps are metric artifacts.
Emergent abilities of large language models
Emergent abilities of large language models are capabilities, such as multi-step reasoning, that appear in models above a certain scale but are absent in smaller models trained the same way.
Emergent constraint
An emergent constraint is a relationship across an ensemble of climate models between an observable present-day climate quantity and a projected future change, letting observations narrow projections.
Emergent gravity
Emergent gravity is the proposal that gravity is not fundamental but arises like temperature from microscopic physics, with dark matter effects reinterpreted as dark-energy-driven gravity.
Emergent misalignment
Emergent misalignment is a phenomenon in language model safety research, first reported in 2025, in which finetuning a model on a narrow task such as writing insecure code produces broad misaligned behavior in unrelated domains.
EmergeTech
EmergeTech, also known as Emerge and formerly Vantage Freight, is a Scottsdale, Arizona freight procurement software company founded in 2016 by brothers Andrew and Michael Leto, previously of GlobalTranz.
Emerging infectious disease
Emerging infectious disease: an infection newly appearing in a population or rapidly spreading; 75% are zoonotic, driven by land-use change, wildlife trade, and travel, exemplified by the 2026 Bundibugyo Ebola PHEIC.
Emerging market
An emerging market, also called an emerging economy, is a country classified as emerging by index providers like MSCI and FTSE Russell, a term coined in 1981 by World Bank economist Antoine van Agtmael.
Emerging Objects
Emerging Objects is an Oakland, California 3D printing company co-founded by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, known for inventing printable building materials including salt and cement polymer.
Emerging Senegal Plan
The Emerging Senegal Plan (Plan Sénégal Émergent, PSE) is Senegal's national development strategy, adopted in 2014 under President Macky Sall to make the country emerging by 2035.
Emerging technologies
Emerging technologies, also called new technologies, are novel technologies in early stages of development and diffusion, marked by rapid change and uncertainty about their future impact.
Emergomycosis
Emergomycosis, also called disseminated emmonsiosis, is a systemic infection by the dimorphic fungus Emergomyces, chiefly E. africanus in South Africa, affecting immunocompromised patients, especially advanced HIV, with about 43% mortality and amphotericin B plus itraconazole treatment.
Emeril Lagasse
Emeril Lagasse (born 1959, Fall River, Massachusetts) is an American chef and TV personality known for Emeril's restaurant, Essence of Emeril, Emeril Live, and the catchphrase "Bam!"
Emeril's
Emeril's is a fine-dining restaurant opened by chef Emeril Lagasse in New Orleans's Warehouse District in 1990, now a two-Michelin-star restaurant run by his son E.J.
Emerin
Emerin (EMD gene, Xq28): a 254-amino-acid LEM-domain inner nuclear membrane protein binding lamin A/C, BAF, and actin; loss of emerin causes X-linked Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.
Emerita (crustacean)
Emerita (mole crabs, sand crabs), genus of burrowing filter-feeding decapod crustaceans in family Hippidae, Anomura; about 12-15 species in Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean swash zones; includes E. analoga and E. talpoida.
Emérita Torres
Emérita Torres is an American politician and Democratic member of the New York State Assembly representing the Bronx's 85th district, after two decades in public policy and advocacy.
Emeritus
Emeritus (feminine emerita, plural emeriti) is an honorary title for a retired person, usually a professor, who keeps a former title; from Latin emereri, earned by service.
Emerkingen
Emerkingen is a village in the Danube valley about 35 km southwest of Ulm, Germany, first recorded in 805 and known for its Roman fort.
Emerson Collective
Emerson Collective, founded by Laurene Powell Jobs in 2011, is a philanthropic and investment LLC (not a foundation) active in education, immigration, climate, and media; it majority-owns The Atlantic since 2017.
Emerson College
Emerson College: private Boston college founded 1880 as an oratory school, focused on communication and arts; campuses in Boston, Los Angeles, Kasteel Well; president Jay Bernhardt; tuition $57,984.
Emerson de Lima
Emerson de Lima is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of Sauter Digital, a cloud and AI consultancy founded in São Paulo in 2020.
Emerson Electric
Emerson Electric Co. is an American automation technology company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1890, it reported net sales of $18.0 billion for fiscal 2025.
Emerson Fittipaldi
Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian racing driver born 1946 in São Paulo; two-time F1 World Champion (1972 Lotus, 1974 McLaren), 14 Grand Prix wins, later two-time Indianapolis 500 winner (1989, 1993) and 1989 CART champion.