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Ecovacs Robotics
Ecovacs Robotics (科沃斯) is a Chinese maker of robot vacuums and smart home appliances, founded in Suzhou in 1998 by Qian Dongqi and listed in Shanghai since 2018.
EcoVadis
EcoVadis is a Paris-based company founded in 2007 that rates businesses on environmental, social, and ethical performance, helping large corporate buyers assess their suppliers; it became a French unicorn in 2022.
Ecovative Design
Ecovative Design is an American biomaterials company in Green Island, New York, founded in 2007 by Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre, best known for its compostable Mushroom Packaging.
Ecovyst
Ecovyst Inc. is an American chemical company based in Wayne, Pennsylvania, providing sulfuric acid regeneration, virgin sulfuric acid, and sulfur dioxide products to refining and mining customers.
ECOWAS
ECOWAS (CEDEAO), the Economic Community of West African States, is a 12-member regional bloc founded by the 1975 Treaty of Lagos, headquartered in Abuja; Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger withdrew effective 29 January 2025.
ECOWAS Monitoring Group
The ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), formally the ECOWAS Cease-fire Monitoring Group, was the peacekeeping force of West African states, first deployed to Liberia in 1990 and later Sierra Leone.
ECOWAS Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance
The ECOWAS Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance is a supplementary protocol of ECOWAS, adopted at Dakar in December 2001, requiring power to be gained only through free, fair elections.
ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, Residence and Establishment
The ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, Residence and Establishment is a 1979 ECOWAS treaty granting Community citizens visa-free entry, residence, and establishment across West African member states.
Ecozone
Ecozone: broad geographic/ecological unit; in biogeography synonymous with biogeographic realm (evolutionary history, spans biomes); in Canada the top level of ecological land classification with 15 terrestrial ecozones; FAO uses 5 domains and 20 global Ecological Zones.
ECP Manco, LLC
ECP Manco, LLC is a Delaware limited liability company formed in 2019 and classified under health care, which raised about $105.1 million in private offerings from 2020 to 2022.
Ecraprost
Ecraprost (code AS 013, brand name Circulase) is a lipid microsphere prodrug of prostaglandin E1, given intravenously as lipo-ecraprost and investigated as a vasodilator for peripheral arterial disease.
Écriture féminine
Écriture féminine (feminine writing) is a French feminist literary theory concept launched by Hélène Cixous in 1975, associated with Cixous, Irigaray, and Kristeva, denoting body-centered writing against phallocentric tradition, not literature by women.
ECS (satellite bus)
ECS was a geostationary communications satellite bus developed by British Aerospace in the United Kingdom as successor to ESA's Orbital Test Satellite, flying five European Communications Satellites for EUTELSAT between 1983 and 1988.
Ecstacy (song)
"Ecstacy" (styled lowercase) is a 1:36 song by SUICIDAL-IDOL, first on SoundCloud July 19, 2021, digital single February 18, 2022, produced by buhguul, viral on TikTok in 2023 with about 144 million Spotify streams; distinct from New Order's and Mari Wilson's same-titled songs.
Ecstasy (film)
Ecstasy (Ekstase, Extase) is Gustav Machatý's 1932/1933 Czechoslovak erotic drama starring Hedy Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr), famous for its nude bathing and orgasm scenes, global censorship battles, and 2019 Venice award-winning restoration.
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa: Bernini's 1647–1652 marble group in the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, commissioned by Cardinal Federico Cornaro, depicting Teresa of Ávila's transverberation.
Ecstatic
Ecstatic is the stage name of Wouter van de Ridder, a Dutch euphoric hardstyle producer on Dirty Workz who also performs the joint live act Progressive Hardstyle with Audiotricz.
Ecstatic seizures
Ecstatic seizures are rare focal epilepsy auras of bliss, physical well-being, and heightened self-awareness with preserved consciousness. About 50-52 cases reported; linked to the dorsal anterior insula; first described by Dostoevsky.
ECT Delta terminal
The ECT Delta terminal is a container terminal at the Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam, opened in 1993 as the Delta/Sea-Land Terminal, the world's first automated container terminal.
ECT2
ECT2 (epithelial cell transforming 2, ARHGEF31), gene at 3q26.31, encodes a 914-aa Rho GTPase exchange factor essential for cytokinesis; autoinhibited by its PH domain, activated by centralspindlin, and an oncoprotein overexpressed in lung, liver, and other cancers.
Ectasia of the left atrial appendage
Ectasia of the left atrial appendage, also known as left atrial appendage aneurysm, is a rare cardiac malformation enlarging the left auricle, usually without other cardiac lesions.
Ecteinascidia turbinata
Ecteinascidia turbinata, the mangrove tunicate, is a colonial Perophoridae ascidian of warm Atlantic and Mediterranean seas, source of the anticancer drug trabectedin (ET-743, Yondelis) actually produced by its endosymbiont Candidatus Endoecteinascidia frumentensis.
Ecthyma
Ecthyma (ICD-11 1B73) is a superficial ulcerative bacterial pyoderma with punched-out crusted ulcers, caused by beta-hemolytic streptococci and Staphylococcus aureus; ecthyma gangrenosum is its Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis variant.
Ecthyma gangrenosum
Ecthyma gangrenosum, a necrotizing skin infection with hemorrhagic pustules evolving into black eschars, classically marks Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia in immunocompromised, neutropenic patients, though other bacteria and fungi can cause identical lesions.
Ectoderm
Ectoderm: outermost of the three embryonic germ layers, formed at gastrulation; gives rise to epidermis, nervous system, neural tube, and neural crest. Also called ectodermal layer; basis of ectodermal dysplasias.
Ectodermal cell
Ectodermal cell, a cell of the ectoderm germ layer; gives rise to nervous system, epidermis, and neural crest derivatives; fate set by BMP signaling during gastrulation.
Ectodermal dysplasia
Ectodermal dysplasia (ED), also called anhidrotic or hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome: a group of 180+ inherited disorders of ectoderm-derived tissues (hair, teeth, nails, sweat glands), affecting about 1 in 5,000-10,000 people; HED from EDA gene mutations is the most common type.
Ectodermal dysplasia-skin fragility syndrome
Ectodermal dysplasia-skin fragility syndrome (McGrath syndrome, EBS due to plakophilin deficiency) is a rare autosomal recessive PKP1 genodermatosis with neonatal skin fragility, palmoplantar keratoderma, nail dystrophy, alopecia, and no cardiac involvement.
Ectoine
Ectoine, a zwitterionic tetrahydropyrimidine compatible solute discovered in 1985 in Ectothiorhodospira halochloris, protects microbes against osmotic, heat, cold, and desiccation stress; produced industrially and used in atopic dermatitis creams and cryopreservation.
Ectomycorrhiza
Ectomycorrhiza (ECM), also called ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, is a fungus-root partnership marked by a mantle and Hartig net, trading soil nitrogen for plant carbon in most temperate and boreal forest trees.