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Eburru, Ol Doinyo
Ol Doinyo Eburru (Eburru) is a Quaternary peralkaline volcanic complex, 2,856 m, in the central Kenyan Rift northwest of Lake Naivasha, with fumarolic activity, no confirmed Holocene eruptions, and a geothermal field with a 2.4 MWe plant.
Eburum
Eburum, ancient Lucanian settlement at modern Eboli in Salerno province, Italy; its people, the Eburini, appear in Pliny (NH 3.98) and Sallust, and it was a Roman municipium.
Ebûsaid Mehmed Efendi
Ebûsaid Mehmed Efendi (Ebû Saîd Mehmed Efendi, 1593/94–1662) was an Ottoman scholar of the Hocazâde family who served three times as şeyhülislâm in the mid-17th century.
Ebûsaidzâde Feyzullah Efendi
Ebûsaidzâde Feyzullah Efendi (1631–1698) was an Ottoman scholar and son of Şeyhülislâm Ebûsaid Mehmed Efendi who twice held the office of şeyhülislâm, from 1690 to 1694, before dismissal and exile.
Ebussuud Efendi
Ebussuud Efendi (ابو السعود افندي), also known as Hoca Chelebi, was the Ottoman Empire's chief jurist, serving as sheyhulislam under Suleyman I from 1545 to 1574.
Ebute Ikorodu
Ebute Ikorodu, also recorded as Awja-Ikoradu or Ebute-Egga, is a populated place in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria, at about 6.60°N 3.48°E on the Lagos Lagoon shore, home to the Ebute/Ipakodo ferry jetty.
Ebüzziya Tevfik
Ebüzziya Tevfik (Ebüzziyâ Mehmed Tevfik, 1849–1913) was an Ottoman journalist, publisher, and calligrapher, a central figure of the late Ottoman press who founded the Matbaa-i Ebüzziyâ printing house in Istanbul and exiled twice.
EC Comics
EC Comics, American comic publisher founded 1946 as Educational Comics by Max Gaines, renamed Entertaining Comics 1950 under Bill Gaines; famed for Tales from the Crypt, Weird Science, and Mad, ended by the 1954 Comics Code, revived by Oni Press.
EC regimen (chemotherapy)
The EC regimen is a two-drug chemotherapy combination of epirubicin and cyclophosphamide, used mainly as neoadjuvant or adjuvant treatment for breast cancer over 3 to 6 cycles.
EC-Council Certified Security Analyst
EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA) is a mid-level penetration testing certification from EC-Council that follows Certified Ethical Hacker and teaches a structured penetration testing methodology.
EC-Earth
EC-Earth is a global Earth system climate model developed by a European consortium of meteorological services and research institutes, founded in 2006 and contributing to CMIP climate comparisons.
EC50
EC50 (half maximal effective concentration) is the agonist concentration producing a response halfway between baseline and maximum; the standard potency measure in pharmacology, derived from the 1910 Hill equation, distinct from IC50 and Kd.
Eça de Queirós
Eça de Queirós, born José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (1845–1900), was a Portuguese novelist and diplomat regarded as the leading realist in Portuguese literature.
ECA stack
ECA stack: ephedrine, caffeine, and aspirin combination promoted for weight loss and athletic performance. Modest short-term fat loss (~2 lb/month with ephedrine plus caffeine), 2-3x side-effect risk; ephedra supplements banned by FDA in 2004.
Ecabet
Ecabet is a diterpenoid anti-ulcer drug, marketed in Japan as ecabet sodium, taken orally for gastric ulcers and gastritis and studied for eliminating H. pylori.
eCall
eCall is an in-vehicle emergency call system that automatically dials 112 after a severe accident, transmitting the vehicle's location and opening a voice link to responders.
Ecallantide
Ecallantide (Kalbitor, DX-88) is a recombinant 60-amino-acid plasma kallikrein inhibitor (Ki 25 pM) injected subcutaneously, 30 mg, for acute hereditary angioedema attacks; US-only approval (2009), boxed warning for anaphylaxis (4%).
Ecarin clotting time
The ecarin clotting time (ECT) is a coagulation assay using ecarin, venom of the saw-scaled viper, to measure direct thrombin inhibitors such as dabigatran and hirudin.
Ecarte
Ecarte (écarté) is a two-player French trick-taking card game with a 32-card pack, five-card hands, a turned trump, and exchange of cards; a 19th-century Paris gambling game related to euchre.
ECARX (亿咖通科技)
ECARX (亿咖通科技) is an automotive technology company co-founded in 2017 by Ziyu Shen and Geely founder Eric Li that supplies cockpit computing platforms to carmakers including Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz.
ECARX Holdings Inc.
ECARX Holdings Inc. is a London-headquartered automotive technology company, co-founded in 2017 by Ziyu Shen and Geely founder Eric Li, that supplies full-stack computing for intelligent vehicles.
Ecatepec de Morelos
Ecatepec de Morelos, Estado de México municipality on former Lake Texcoco; Mexico's most populous municipality (1,645,352 in 2020), home of the colonial Albarradón dike, Mexicable cable car, and rapid irregular urbanization.
Ecaterina Szabo
Ecaterina Szabo (Katalin Szabó), Romanian artistic gymnast born 1968 in Zagon; won four golds and a silver at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the Games' most successful athlete, and ten World Championship medals.
Ecaz Labyrinthus
Ecaz Labyrinthus: polygonal labyrinth terrain in Titan's south polar region, 360 km across, IAU named 2014 after the Dune planet Ecaz; organic plateau dissected by methane dissolution, karst-like.
Ecbatana
Ecbatana (Old Persian Hagmatana, modern Hamadan, Iran) was the Median capital, Achaemenid summer capital, and satrapal seat of Media; Herodotus describes seven concentric colored walls, and Tell Hagmatana preserves its excavated remains.
ECC memory
ECC memory, or error-correcting code memory, is computer memory that stores extra check bits to detect and correct data corruption automatically, standard on servers and workstations.
ECC4703
ECC4703 (ECC-4703) is Eccogene's oral, liver-targeting THR-β full agonist in Phase IIa trials for MASH (MOSAIC, with ECC0509) and as a semaglutide adjunct for obesity (MIST); IND approved 2022.
ECC5004 / AZD5004 (oral GLP-1 receptor agonist)
ECC5004/AZD5004 (elecoglipron) is an oral, once-daily small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist discovered by Eccogene and licensed to AstraZeneca in 2023 for $185 million upfront, in Phase 3 development for type 2 diabetes and obesity.
Ecce homo
Ecce homo ("Behold the man!") is a Christian art subject of Pilate presenting the scourged Christ, painted by Mantegna, Caravaggio, Cigoli, Rembrandt, and others; a lost Caravaggio version was rediscovered in 2021 and confirmed by the Prado in 2024.
Eccellenza
Eccellenza is the top regional amateur football championship of Italy's Lega Nazionale Dilettanti, one step below Serie D. 28 groups; group winners promoted directly, seven spareggi places for second-placed teams, three relegations per group.