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Ephod

Ephod (Hebrew אֵפֹד, ephod): ancient Israelite priestly vestment, a close-fitting armless garment worn by the high priest and ordinary priests, also denoting a cultic image or divinatory object linked to the Urim and Thummim.

Ephraim

Ephraim, also Efrayim (Hebrew אֶפְרָיִם), is the younger son of Joseph, born in Egypt, and the eponymous ancestor of one of the leading tribes of Israel.

Sep 21, 2026

Ephraim Katzir

Ephraim Katzir, also known as Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir, was an Israeli biophysicist at the Weizmann Institute who served as the fourth President of Israel from 1973 to 1978.

Sep 21, 2026

Ephraim M. Sparrow

Ephraim M. Sparrow (1928–2019) was an American mechanical engineer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics who spent six decades on the University of Minnesota faculty.

Oct 10, 2026

Ephraim Mirvis

Ephraim Mirvis, born 1956 in South Africa, is an Orthodox rabbi and the 11th Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, installed in 2013.

Sep 19, 2026

Ephrath

Ephrath, also called Ephrathah, is a biblical name for Bethlehem of Judah, the town about 5 miles south of Jerusalem, meaning "fruitful" and first attested as Bit-Lahmi in the 14th-century BCE Amarna letters.

Ephrem the Syrian

Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306–373), also known as Ephraem of Edessa, was a deacon of Nisibis whose Syriac hymns defended Nicaean Christianity; he died in Edessa in 373.

Ephrin

Ephrins are membrane-bound ligands of Eph receptor tyrosine kinases, the largest RTK family, split into GPI-anchored ephrin-A and transmembrane ephrin-B classes mediating bidirectional signaling in axon guidance and cancer.

Ephrin signaling

Ephrin signaling: bidirectional contact-dependent cell communication between Eph receptor tyrosine kinases and membrane-bound ephrin ligands, with forward and reverse signaling governing axon guidance, angiogenesis, and cancer.

EPHX1

EPHX1 (microsomal epoxide hydrolase, mEH, EC 3.3.2.9) is a human ER enzyme at 1q42.12 that hydrolyzes xenobiotic and drug epoxides to diols, with common Tyr113His and His139Arg variants linked to cancer, COPD, asthma, and diabetes susceptibility.

EPHX2

EPHX2 (epoxide hydrolase 2, sEH, aliases CEH, SEH, ABHD20) is a human gene at 8p21.2-p21.1 encoding soluble epoxide hydrolase, a bifunctional phosphatase-hydrolase that converts EETs to diols and is a drug target in cardiovascular, renal, and Alzheimer's disease.

Ephydridae

Ephydridae, shore flies or brine flies (Zetterstedt, 1837), a family of small Diptera in Ephydroidea with about 2,000 species; larvae inhabit fresh to hypersaline waters, hot springs, and petroleum pools.

Ephyra (Elis)

Ephyra (Ἐφύρα), ancient town in Elis, Peloponnese; legendary residence of King Augeias, possibly on the Ladon or Selleis rivers; distinct from Ephyra in Epirus; exact site unknown.

Épi

Épi (Epi) is an island in Shefa Province, Vanuatu, 100 km north of Port Vila, with over 7,000 residents, two west-coast airstrips, dugongs at Lamen Bay, and the active East Epi submarine volcano offshore.

Oct 15, 2026

Epi Info

Epi Info is a free public domain software suite developed by the CDC for public health practitioners, widely used for outbreak investigations and surveillance since its 1985 release.

Epiais-Rhus

Épiais-Rhus, a Val-d'Oise commune north of Pontoise, France, known for its Gallo-Roman archaeological site (Les Terres Noires) with theatre, baths, temple, and forum, classified monument historique in 1983, plus the 16th-century Notre-Dame church.

Epiakon (Epiacum)

Epiacum (Epiakon), also called Whitley Castle, is a lozenge-shaped Roman auxiliary fort near Alston in the North Pennines on the Maiden Way, the highest stone-built fort in Britain at 330 m, with up to seven concentric ditches and a c. AD 213 inscription by the 3rd cohort of Nervii.

Epibatidine

Epibatidine, a chlorinated alkaloid from the Ecuadorian poison frog Epipedobates tricolor (E. anthonyi), is a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist about 200 times more potent than morphine as a non-opioid analgesic, but too toxic for therapeutic use; analogs include tebanicline (ABT-594).

Epiblepharon

Epiblepharon is a congenital eyelid condition, common in East Asian children, in which a skin-muscle fold overrides the lower lid margin and turns lashes against the eye; it often resolves spontaneously and is corrected by the modified Hotz procedure.

Epiboly

Epiboly: conserved gastrulation movement in which a cell sheet or multilayer thins and spreads, e.g. the zebrafish blastoderm over the yolk via EVL, YSL, and radial intercalation, and mammalian epidermal spreading.

Epibulbar choristoma

Epibulbar choristoma (ICD-11 LA14.06): benign congenital growth of normal tissue in an abnormal site on the eye surface; types include dermoid, dermolipoma, complex, and the rare osseous choristoma containing bone.

Epic (2013 film)

Epic is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated fantasy-adventure film directed by Chris Wedge, produced by Blue Sky Studios and loosely based on William Joyce's picture book.

Epic (genre)

Epic (genre): long narrative poetry on the deeds of gods and heroes, from Greek epikos/epos. Covers Homeric oral-formulaic origins, the Epic Cycle, Parry-Lord theory, world traditions, Bakhtin, and modern genre debates.

Epic (tabletop game)

Epic is Games Workshop's series of 6mm-scale Warhammer 40,000 tabletop wargames, beginning with Adeptus Titanicus (1988) and Space Marine (1989), through Epic 40,000 (1997) and Epic Armageddon (2003), revived by Legions Imperialis (2023).

EPIC 201595106

EPIC 201595106 (K2-360) is a Sun-like G star 232 pc away with two planets: K2-360 b, a 0.88-day ultra-short-period super-Earth of density 11 g/cm3, and K2-360 c, a 9.8-day RV planet.

EPIC 206024342

EPIC 206024342 (K2-299) is a G-type star about 370 pc away in Aquarius with three confirmed transiting planets: super Earth c (0.91 d), super Earth b (4.51 d), and Neptune-like d (14.65 d), plus an unconfirmed 27.7-day candidate.

EPIC 206042996

EPIC 206042996 (K2-301, 2MASS J22300326-1336364) is a distant faint red dwarf, 451.769 pc away, observed by K2 Campaign 3, with two confirmed transiting planets: super-Earth b (1.7 Earth radii, 3.53 Earth masses, 5.3-day orbit, 2019) and ultra-short-period c (1.2 Earth radii, 0.355-day orbit, 2021).

EPIC 206317286

EPIC 206317286 (K2-303), a K3V dwarf star about 314 pc away in Aquarius, hosts two confirmed K2 transiting planets: Earth-sized EPIC 206317286 b (1.58-day period, Heller et al. 2019) and super-Earth/sub-Neptune EPIC 206317286 c (17.5-day period, Christiansen et al. 2022).

EPIC 212297394

EPIC 212297394 (K2-304) is a K-type dwarf about 418 pc away with two confirmed transiting planets: super-Earth b (2.29-day period, 1.48 Earth radii, 2.79 Earth masses) and Neptune-like c (5.21-day period, 2.27 Earth radii), found in K2 Campaign 6.