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Early warning score
An early warning score (EWS) is a bedside scoring method that turns routinely measured vital signs into one aggregate number used to trigger escalation of clinical care in acute illness.
Early Warnings for All
Early Warnings for All is a United Nations initiative, launched by Secretary-General António Guterres in 2022, aiming to cover every person with early warning systems by 2027.
Early world maps
Early world maps: the Babylonian Imago Mundi (6th century BCE, BM 92687), Anaximander's first scale map, Ptolemy's coordinate Geography, the Tabula Peutingeriana, and medieval mappaemundi like Ebstorf and Hereford.
Early-onset Alzheimer's disease
Early-onset (younger-onset) Alzheimer's disease is Alzheimer's beginning before age 65, about 5% of US cases. Familial forms come from APP, PSEN1, and PSEN2 mutations; lecanemab and donanemab modestly slow early symptomatic disease.
Early-onset autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease
Early-onset autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease (EOAD, EOFAD, ADAD): rare inherited Alzheimer disease with onset usually before 60, caused by fully penetrant PSEN1, APP, or PSEN2 mutations; under 1% of all AD cases.
Early-onset calcifying leukoencephalopathy-skeletal dysplasia
Early-onset calcifying leukoencephalopathy-skeletal dysplasia, also called BANDDOS (OMIM 618476), is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive CSF1R-related disorder combining calcifying leukoencephalopathy, brain malformations, neurodegeneration, and dysosteosclerosis-Pyle spectrum skeletal dysplasia.
Early-onset cerebellar ataxia with retained tendon reflexes
Early-onset cerebellar ataxia with retained tendon reflexes, also called EOCARR or Harding ataxia, is a rare inherited ataxia starting in childhood that resembles Friedreich ataxia but keeps brisk tendon reflexes.
Early-onset dementia
Early-onset (young-onset) dementia, YOD, is dementia with symptom onset before age 65, about 5-8% of cases, Alzheimer's disease only 34%, with long diagnostic delays and frequent psychiatric misdiagnosis.
Early-onset generalized limb-onset dystonia
Early-onset generalized limb-onset dystonia, also DYT1 or DYT-TOR1A or Oppenheim dystonia, a rare autosomal dominant dystonia from the TOR1A c.907_909delGAG deletion, starting in a limb in childhood and generalizing in 60-70% of cases.
Early-onset myopathy with fatal cardiomyopathy
Early-onset myopathy with fatal cardiomyopathy (EOMFC), or Salih myopathy, is a rare autosomal recessive TTN-related titinopathy with infantile skeletal muscle weakness and childhood dilated cardiomyopathy causing death between ages 8 and 20.
Early-onset myopathy-areflexia-respiratory distress-dysphagia syndrome
EMARDD (early-onset myopathy-areflexia-respiratory distress-dysphagia syndrome) is a rare autosomal recessive congenital myopathy caused by MEGF10 mutations on 5q23, a satellite cellopathy with neonatal weakness, diaphragmatic paralysis, dysphagia, and areflexia.
Early-onset obesity-hyperphagia-severe developmental delay syndrome
Early-onset obesity-hyperphagia-severe developmental delay syndrome (OBHD, OMIM 613886) is a rare autosomal dominant syndromic obesity caused by NTRK2/TrkB mutations, with hyperphagia, short-term memory and language impairment, and fewer than 10 reported cases.
Early-onset parkinsonism-intellectual disability syndrome
Early-onset parkinsonism-intellectual disability syndrome, or Waisman syndrome (OMIM 311510), is a rare X-linked recessive RAB39B-related disorder with infantile intellectual disability, macrocephaly, and parkinsonism before age 45, mainly in males.
Early-onset spastic ataxia-myoclonic epilepsy-neuropathy syndrome
Early-onset spastic ataxia-myoclonic epilepsy-neuropathy syndrome, also called SPAX5 or autosomal recessive spastic ataxia type 5 (OMIM 614487), is a rare biallelic AFG3L2 mitochondrial m-AAA protease disorder causing childhood spastic ataxia, neuropathy, and myoclonic epilepsy.
Early-onset X-linked optic atrophy
Early-onset X-linked optic atrophy, or optic atrophy type 2 (OPA2), is a rare X-linked recessive disorder in which boys develop progressive vision loss beginning in early childhood.
Early-type galaxy
An early-type galaxy (ETG) is an elliptical or lenticular galaxy with smooth, featureless morphology and mostly old stars, a name dating to Edwin Hubble's 1926 classification that once implied an evolutionary stage.
Early–late gate synchronizer
The early–late gate synchronizer is a symbol-timing recovery method that compares samples taken before and after a pulse's peak to steer the receiver's sampling clock.
Earlybird Health
Earlybird Health is the healthcare-focused venture capital arm of European firm Earlybird Venture Capital, based in Cologne, Germany. Its €173 million second fund closed in 2024.
Earlybird VC
Earlybird VC is a European venture capital firm founded in 1997, based in Berlin, with €2.5 billion under management across software, deep tech, and life science.
Earlybird Venture Capital
Earlybird Venture Capital is a pan-European venture capital firm founded in 1997 and headquartered in Berlin, managing about €2.5 billion across technology and health funds.
EARLYDEXCoV2 trial
EARLYDEXCoV2 (EARLY-DEX COVID-19, NCT04836780) was a Spanish randomized open-label trial testing early dexamethasone 6 mg daily for 7 days in hospitalized COVID-19 pneumonia patients without oxygen needs but at high ARDS risk; it found no reduction in ARDS.
EarlySalary
EarlySalary, legally Social Worth Technologies Pvt Ltd, is a Pune-based consumer lending fintech founded in 2015 by Akshay Mehrotra and Ashish Goyal, rebranded as Fibe in 2022.
Earned income tax credit
The earned income tax credit (EITC) is a refundable US federal tax credit for low- and moderate-income workers that rises with earnings, enacted in 1975.
Earned It
Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey) is a 2015 waltz-time single by the Weeknd from the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack; it peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100, won a Grammy for Best R&B Performance, and was Oscar-nominated.
Earned run average
Earned run average (ERA) is a baseball statistic measuring how many earned runs a pitcher allows per nine innings, credited to Henry Chadwick and officially adopted in 1912.
Earned schedule
Earned schedule (ES) is a time-based extension of earned value management created by Walt Lipke in 2003, expressing progress in time units and forecasting duration reliably through project completion.
Earned value management
Earned value management, or Earned Value Analysis, is a project performance measurement technique that integrates work scope, schedule, and cost into a single baseline used widely by the US government.
Earnest Gloyna
Earnest Gloyna (1921–2019) was an American environmental engineer and dean of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Earnest Hooton
Earnest Hooton (1887–1954) was an American physical anthropologist at Harvard, its first professor of the subject, who trained most of a generation of American physical anthropologists.
Earnest W. Deavenport Jr.
Earnest W. Deavenport Jr. is an American chemical engineer who served as chairman and CEO of Eastman Chemical Company from 1994 until his retirement in 2002.