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Enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma
Enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL), formerly type I EATL, is a rare aggressive intestinal T-cell lymphoma linked to coeliac disease and refractory coeliac disease type II; sibling entity MEITL. Median survival about 5 months; ASCT improves outcomes.
Enteropeptidase
Enteropeptidase (enterokinase, EC 3.4.21.9), a duodenal brush-border serine protease encoded by TMPRSS15, activates trypsinogen by cleaving its DDDDK peptide, starting the digestive protease cascade; its deficiency causes congenital enterokinase deficiency.
Enteroscopy
Enteroscopy is an endoscopic examination of the small intestine for obscure bleeding, tumors, and Crohn's disease; device-assisted techniques use balloons or a spiral overtube to reach deep bowel.
Enterosorption
Enterosorption: adsorption of gut contents onto an oral sorbent such as activated charcoal, used in overdose decontamination; term coined in the Soviet Union, dosing 10:1 charcoal-to-toxin, 25-100 g adults.
Enterostomy
An enterostomy is a surgical connection between a segment of the gastrointestinal tract and the abdominal wall skin, created for fecal diversion; more than 130,000 intestinal stomas are created yearly in the United States.
Enterotomy
An enterotomy is a surgical incision into the small intestine, performed to remove a foreign body, gallstone, or bezoar that cannot pass or be removed endoscopically.
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infection, ICD-11 1A03.1, is toxin-mediated watery diarrhoea from LT/ST-producing E. coli; about 220 million episodes yearly, the leading cause of traveller's diarrhoea.
Enteroviral meningitis
Enteroviral meningitis is viral meningitis caused by non-polio enteroviruses, the leading identified cause of viral meningitis. EV-B species, especially echovirus 30, dominate outbreaks, which peak in summer, mainly affect children, and are confirmed by CSF PCR.
Enterovirus
Enterovirus is a Picornaviridae genus of small, non-enveloped positive-strand RNA viruses, including polioviruses, coxsackieviruses, echoviruses, and rhinoviruses; over 100 human serotypes in species EV-A–D and RV-A–C cause mild to severe disease.
Enterovirus 71 inactivated vaccine
An enterovirus 71 inactivated vaccine is a whole-virus vaccine grown in mammalian cells and chemically killed, licensed in China and Taiwan against severe EV71 hand, foot, and mouth disease.
Enterovirus betacoxsackie
Human Enterovirus B (EV-B) is a species of the genus Enterovirus, family Picornaviridae. It infect humans and includes most historically named echoviruses and 63 genetically characterized types.
Enterovirus deconjuncti
Enterovirus deconjuncti (formerly Enterovirus D) is a Picornaviridae species containing enterovirus D68, D70, D94, and D111; its type virus EV-D68 causes respiratory illness and acute flaccid myelitis.
Enterprise
An enterprise is an organized economic unit, natural or legal, that produces goods or services for the market with some autonomy in decision-making, a term defined differently in law and statistics.
Enterprise (NX-01)
Enterprise (NX-01), the fictional United Earth Starfleet prototype NX-class starship of Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005), commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer; launched 2151, first warp 5 ship, crew 83, decommissioned 2161, designed by Doug Drexler from the Akira-class.
Enterprise architecture
Enterprise architecture, also known as Information Systems Architecture, is the organizing logic for an organization's business processes and infrastructure, tracing technology change back to business strategy.
Enterprise architecture framework
An enterprise architecture framework is a logical structure of principles, models, and practices for describing an enterprise's business, information, and technology architecture, first introduced in 1986.
Enterprise content management
Enterprise content management, also known as Enterprise CMS, is the strategies, methods, and tools for capturing, managing, storing, preserving, and delivering an organization's content and documents.
Enterprise Dynamics
Enterprise Dynamics (ED) is a discrete event simulation package developed by INCONTROL Simulation Solutions in Woerden, the Netherlands, used to model, analyze, and optimize logistics and manufacturing systems.
Enterprise Earth
Enterprise Earth is a technical deathcore band from Spokane, Washington, formed in 2014 by Dan Watson of Infant Annihilator and guitarist BJ Sampson, named for conspiracy-theory research.
Enterprise Holdings
Enterprise Holdings, rebranded as Enterprise Mobility in 2023, is a privately held, Taylor-family-owned St. Louis company operating Enterprise, National, and Alamo, the world's largest car rental business.
Enterprise JavaBeans
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is a Java specification for developing large-scale, distributed, transactional business applications, first released in 1998 and now developed by the Eclipse Foundation as Jakarta Enterprise Beans.
Enterprise of the Indies (Columbus's Armada of 1492)
The Enterprise of the Indies, or Capitulations of Santa Fe, was the April 1492 agreement between the Catholic Monarchs and Christopher Columbus that financed his westward voyage to the Indies.
Enterprise Products Partners
Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) is a Houston-based master limited partnership providing midstream energy services to producers and consumers across North America; its origins trace to a 1968 company founded by Dan Duncan.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Enterprise Rent-A-Car is the largest car rental company in the United States, founded in St. Louis in 1957 around neighborhood branches serving local customers rather than airports.
Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning (ERP), often called an ERP system, is business management software that integrates functions like finance, human resources, manufacturing, and supply chain through one common database.
Enterprise risk management
Enterprise risk management (ERM) is the coordinated, organization-wide discipline of identifying, assessing, and responding to risks within a stated risk appetite, guided by COSO and ISO 31000 frameworks.
Enterprise Rupes
Enterprise Rupes, the largest lobate scarp on Mercury, a ~1,000 km thrust-fault scarp with over 3 km of relief, crosscutting the Rembrandt basin and bounding Mercury's great valley.
Enterprise service bus
An enterprise service bus (ESB) is an architectural pattern in which a centralized software component integrates applications, performing data transformation, message routing, and protocol conversion as the backbone of service-oriented architecture.
Enterprise software
Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software, is software organizations buy or license to run their own operations, coordinating accounting, procurement, human resources, and supply chain across departments.
Enterprise value
Enterprise value (EV), also called total enterprise value, is the market-based price of a company's entire operating business: equity value plus net debt, used in valuation and M&A.