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Esmee Kosterman
Esmee Kosterman (born 2005) is a Dutch racing driver from Wijk bij Duurstede; FIA Girls on Track Rising Stars finalist, first woman to win in the Ford Fiesta Sprint Cup Benelux, British F4 racer, and 2026 F1 Academy driver for MP Motorsport as the first LEGO Racing driver.
Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
Esmeralda (La Esmeralda) is the Romani street dancer of Victor Hugo's 1831 Notre-Dame de Paris, loved by Frollo, Phoebus, Gringoire, and Quasimodo, hanged in the novel but surviving in the 1996 Disney film and countless stage and screen adaptations.
Esmeralda Garcia
Esmeralda Garcia (Esmeralda de Jesus Freitas Garcia Silami, born 1959) is a Brazilian sprinter and jumper, 1976 and 1984 Olympian, 1983 Pan American Games 100 m gold medalist, and 1985 NCAA triple jump champion for Florida State.
Esmeralda Pimentel
Esmeralda Pimentel (María Esmeralda Pimentel Murguía), born 1989, is a Mexican actress and producer, a Televisa telenovela lead (El color de la pasión, La vecina) now in streaming and Spanish productions, and co-founder of Ellas Cuatro.
Esmeralda Soria
Esmeralda Soria is an American Democratic politician who represents California's 27th Assembly district, covering parts of Fresno, Madera, and Merced counties, and chairs the Assembly Agriculture Committee.
Esmeraldas, Esmeraldas
Esmeraldas (San Mateo de las Esmeraldas) is the capital of Ecuador's Esmeraldas Province, on the right bank of the Esmeraldas River mouth; a 25°C tropical port city, declared Cultural Heritage in 1996, with a large Afro-Ecuadorian population.
Esmerlyn Valdez
Esmerlyn Valdez, Dominican outfielder/first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates; signed for $130,000 in 2021, debuted May 22, 2026, hit 17 MLB home runs as a rookie and won NL Rookie of the Month in July 2026.
Esmethadone
Esmethadone (REL-1017, d-methadone, dextromethadone) is the opioid-inactive dextro-isomer of methadone, a low-affinity uncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist developed by Relmada as an oral rapid antidepressant; phase 3 trials missed their primary endpoint and development was paused.
ESMFold
ESMFold is a protein structure prediction system developed by Meta AI that predicts a protein's 3D atomic structure from its amino acid sequence alone, released in November 2022.
Esmirtazapine
Esmirtazapine (Org 50081), the S(+) enantiomer of mirtazapine as its maleic acid salt, is an investigational 5-HT2A/H1 antagonist studied by Merck at 1.5-4.5 mg for primary insomnia, improving sleep time without rebound insomnia.
Esmond E. Snell
Esmond E. Snell (1914–2003) was an American biochemist who helped discover folic acid, identified pyridoxal and pyridoxamine as coenzyme forms of vitamin B6, and pioneered microbiological vitamin assays.
Esmond R. Long
Esmond R. Long (1890–1979) was an American pathologist at the University of Pennsylvania whose research with Florence Seibert produced purified protein derivative, the worldwide standard for tuberculin skin testing.
Esmond Romilly
Esmond Romilly was a British writer and anti-fascist who fought in the Spanish Civil War and wrote Boadilla, a primary source, before dying in 1941 as an RCAF pilot.
Esna
Esna (ancient Jwnyt), also known as Latopolis, is an ancient Egyptian city on the Nile's west bank south of Luxor, home to the temple of Khnum.
Esnandes
Esnandes, Charente-Maritime commune near La Rochelle on the Bay of Aiguillon; home of bouchot mussel farming, the Walton 1235 legend, fortified church Saint-Martin, and a mussel museum.
Esnault-Pelterie (lunar crater)
Esnault-Pelterie, far-side lunar crater, IAU feature ID 1848, 76.79 km diameter at 47.41°N, 141.83°W, on LAC-34; named for French rocketry pioneer Robert Esnault-Pelterie, who coined 'astronautics'.
ESnet
ESnet, the Energy Sciences Network, is the US Department of Energy's high-performance network for its 17 national laboratories, formed in 1986 and stewarded by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Esnyr
Esnyr (Esnyr John Ranollo, born 2001, Digos, Davao del Sur) is a Filipino TikTok comedian and actor; his school skits as Precious, Bogart, and Balong earned over 10 million followers, 2022 TikTok Awards honors, film roles, and a 2025 PBB Celebrity Collab run.
ESO Fund
ESO Fund, through ESO Venture Fund, LP, is a California venture capital firm founded in 2011 that provides nonrecourse financing against private tech company equity.
ESO/SERC Southern Sky Survey
The ESO/SERC Southern Sky Survey is a two-color photographic atlas of the sky south of declination −20°, the southern counterpart to the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.
Esomeprazole
Esomeprazole (Nexium) is the S-enantiomer of omeprazole, a proton pump inhibitor launched by AstraZeneca in 2000 that irreversibly blocks the gastric H+/K+-ATPase; used for GERD, erosive esophagitis, H. pylori eradication, and hypersecretory conditions.
Esophageal achalasia
Esophageal achalasia: rare esophageal motility disorder with aperistalsis and failed lower esophageal sphincter relaxation, causing dysphagia and regurgitation; treated by pneumatic dilation, Heller myotomy, POEM, or botox.
Esophageal atresia
Esophageal atresia (EA), usually with tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF), is a congenital interruption of the esophagus occurring in about 1 in 2500-4000 births; most cases are Gross type C with distal fistula, first definitively repaired by Cameron Haight in 1941.
Esophageal biopsy
An esophageal biopsy is a tissue sample taken from the esophageal lining, usually with forceps passed through an endoscope, to diagnose eosinophilic esophagitis, infections, Barrett's esophagus, and cancer.
Esophageal cancer
Esophageal cancer, malignant disease of the esophagus lining; main subtypes squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. About 604,000 new cases in 2020; tobacco, alcohol, and Barrett esophagus are key risk factors.
Esophageal dilation
Esophageal dilation is an endoscopic procedure that widens a narrowed esophagus with bougies or balloons to relieve dysphagia from benign strictures, achalasia, or eosinophilic esophagitis.
Esophageal impedance pH monitoring
Esophageal impedance pH monitoring is a diagnostic test recording impedance and pH in the esophagus for 24 hours or more to detect and classify reflux episodes.
Esophageal pH monitoring
Esophageal pH monitoring is a diagnostic test that measures esophageal acidity over one to four days, using a nasal catheter or wireless capsule, to quantify gastroesophageal reflux.
Esophageal speech
Esophageal speech is a device-free method of voice restoration after total laryngectomy, in which air injected into the esophagus vibrates the pharyngoesophageal segment to produce voice.
Esophageal varices
Oesophageal varices are dilated submucosal veins of the lower oesophagus caused by portal hypertension, usually cirrhosis; they form above an HVPG of 10 mmHg, affect most cirrhosis patients within 10 years, and are treated with beta-blockers, band ligation, and TIPS.