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Epiploic appendagitis
Epiploic appendagitis, inflammation of a colonic epiploic appendage from torsion or venous thrombosis, mimics diverticulitis and appendicitis; diagnosed by CT ring and dot signs, treated conservatively with NSAIDs.
Epipolar geometry
Epipolar geometry is the projective geometry relating two perspective views of the same scene, restricting where a point's corresponding match appears in the other image to a single epipolar line.
Epipremnum aureum
Epipremnum aureum, known as golden pothos or devil's ivy, is a climbing vine in the arum family native to Mo'orea and grown widely as a houseplant.
Epiretinal membrane
Epiretinal membrane (macular pucker): fibrocellular sheet on the inner retinal surface, usually after posterior vitreous detachment, causing metamorphopsia; staged by Govetto OCT criteria, observed or treated by vitrectomy with membrane and ILM peeling.
Epiretinal membrane surgery
Epiretinal membrane surgery is a vitreoretinal procedure that peels a fibrous membrane off the macula to treat distortion and blurred vision, with about 80% of patients improving by at least two lines of visual acuity.
Epirmupi
Epirmupi (Epir-mupi) was a governor of Susa under the Akkadian empire in the late third millennium BC, known from seals bearing his titles found at Susa.
Epiroc
Epiroc AB is a Swedish mining and infrastructure equipment manufacturer headquartered in Stockholm, with about 19,000 employees in 150 countries, created when Atlas Copco spun off its mining and rock excavation businesses in 2018.
Epirubicin
Epirubicin, also known as 4′-epidoxorubicin and marketed in the United States as Ellence, is an anthracycline chemotherapy drug, an isomer of doxorubicin, used mainly to treat breast cancer.
Epirus
Epirus (Ήπειρος, Ípeiros): geographical and historical region of southeastern Europe spanning northwestern Greece and southern Albania, from the Ceraunian mountains to the Ambracian Gulf; also a Greek administrative region of 9,203 km² with capital Ioannina.
Episcleritis
Episcleritis, also called bulbar conjunctivitis, is a benign, self-limited inflammation of the episclera between conjunctiva and sclera, with simple and nodular forms, usually idiopathic, sometimes linked to rheumatoid arthritis or IBD, and distinguished from scleritis by phenylephrine blanching.
Episcopal bishops of the Confederate and Reconstruction South
The Episcopal bishops of the Confederate and Reconstruction South seceded from the Episcopal Church in 1861, formed a church for the Confederate States, and reunited by 1866.
Episcopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church, formally the Protestant Episcopal Church, is the United States-based province of the Anglican Communion, founded in 1789, with about 1.5 million members in roughly one hundred dioceses.
Episcopal City of Albi
Episcopal City of Albi (Cité épiscopale d'Albi), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2010 in south-west France: medieval brick ensemble with fortified Sainte-Cécile Cathedral (1282–1390), Palais de la Berbie, Pont-Vieux, built after the Albigensian Crusade.
Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč
The Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in Poreč, Croatia, is a UNESCO World Heritage site of 6th-century early Christian buildings built by Bishop Euphrasius.
Episcopal polity
Episcopal polity, also called Episcopal church governance, is a form of church governance in which bishops hold authority, used by Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran and Methodist churches.
Episcopal see
An episcopal see, also called a bishop's see or ecclesiastical see, is the place and jurisdiction of a bishop, the seat where his official chair, the cathedra, stands.
Episiotomy
An episiotomy, plural episiotomies, is a surgical incision of the vaginal opening and perineum made during childbirth to enlarge the opening and ease delivery of the baby's head.
Episode of Care
Episode of care: an interval of care by a provider or facility for a specific medical problem (MeSH D017050, 1992), also the defined service unit for bundled payment models such as BPCI, CJR, and TEAM.
Episode title conventions
Episode title conventions: rules for naming TV, radio, and podcast episodes across BBC and Apple style guides, S01E01 filename patterns, EIDR and PBCore metadata, citations, and Netflix localization.
Episodes (TV series)
Episodes is a Showtime/BBC comedy created by David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik about British writers Sean and Beverly Lincoln remaking Lyman's Boys in Hollywood with Matt LeBlanc as himself; five series, 41 episodes, starring Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan.
Episodic accretion
Episodic accretion is the growth of a forming star through short, intense accretion bursts from its circumstellar disk, separated by long quiet intervals, as seen in the FU Orionis objects.
Episodic ataxia type 1
Episodic ataxia type 1 (EA1), a rare autosomal dominant potassium channelopathy from KCNA1 (Kv1.1) mutations on 12p13, causes brief ataxia attacks with interictal myokymia, childhood onset, and carbamazepine-responsive episodes.
Episodic ataxia type 4
Episodic ataxia type 4 (EA4, PATX, periodic vestibulocerebellar ataxia; OMIM 606552) is a very rare autosomal dominant hereditary episodic ataxia with adult onset, attacks of vertigo, diplopia, and ataxia, unknown gene, no acetazolamide response, and no myokymia.
Episodic ataxia type 5
Episodic ataxia type 5 (EA5, OMIM 613855) is an extremely rare autosomal dominant channelopathy caused by CACNB4 mutations at 2q22-23, with adult-onset attacks of vertigo and ataxia lasting hours, allelic with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy 6.
Episodic memory
Episodic memory is the memory system for personally experienced events, tied to the time and place they occurred. Endel Tulving defined it in 1972 as distinct from semantic memory.
Episodic simulation
Episodic simulation is a cognitive psychology method in which participants imagine specific personal future events so researchers can measure how simulation affects memory, decision making, and emotion.
Episodic unilateral mydriasis
Episodic anisocoria (ICD-11 8D8A.2), also benign episodic unilateral mydriasis, is transient recurring unequal pupil size from abnormal autonomic tone, typically in young women with migraine, benign and a diagnosis of exclusion.
Episodic vestibular syndrome
Episodic vestibular syndrome (EVS), ICD-11 AB31, is transient vertigo, dizziness, or unsteadiness lasting seconds to days with remission between episodes; main causes are vestibular migraine, Meniere's disease, BPPV, vestibular paroxysmia, and TIA.
Epistasis
Epistasis: gene interaction in which one gene masks or modifies another's expression, from Bateson's 1909 masking definition and Fisher's 1918 statistical epistacy to modern biological versus statistical epistasis, GWAS detection, and missing heritability.
Epistates
The epistates (Greek ἐπιστάτης, 'overseer') was a supervisory office of Ptolemaic Egypt: a judicial official under the nome's strategos and a royal overseer of temple finances.