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Ehrlichiosis

Ehrlichiosis, also called human monocytic ehrlichiosis when caused by Ehrlichia chaffeensis, is a tick-borne bacterial disease from lone star or blacklegged tick bites, causing fever, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia 5-14 days later, treated with doxycycline.

Ehsaan Faramosh (احسان فراموش)

Ehsaan Faramosh (احسان فراموش), an Urdu phrase meaning ungrateful, is a 2023 Pakistani ARY Digital soap serial, 64 episodes, written by Tahir Nazeer, directed by Syed Faisal Bukhari, starring Momina Iqbal, Humayun Ashraf, Mashal Khan, and Salman Saeed in a story of jealousy between sisters Falak and Nawal.

Ehsaan Noorani

Ehsaan Noorani (एहसान नूरानी) is an Indian guitarist and film composer in Mumbai, the guitarist of the composing trio Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, known for Dil Chahta Hai (2001).

Ehsan Khajehamiri

Ehsan Khajehamiri (احسان خواجه امیری) is an Iranian pop singer and composer, born in Tehran in 1984, son of the singer Iraj, known for licensed Iranian pop since 2004.

Ehud Ahissar

Ehud Ahissar is a neuroscientist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, known for research on active sensing and whisker-based tactile perception.

Ehud Barak (אהוד ברק)

Ehud Barak (אהוד ברק), born 1942, Israeli statesman: 14th IDF Chief of Staff 1991–1995, tenth prime minister 1999–2001, defense minister 2007–2013; led the 2000 Lebanon withdrawal and Camp David talks.

Ehud Gazit

Ehud Gazit (אהוד גזית) is an Israeli biochemist and nanotechnologist, a professor at Tel Aviv University known for research on peptide self-assembly and metabolite amyloids.

Ehud Hrushovski

Ehud Hrushovski (born 1959 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli model theorist whose 1996 proof of the geometric Mordell–Lang conjecture turned logic into a tool of algebra and geometry.

Ehud Keinan

Ehud Keinan is an Israeli organic chemist, professor at the Technion, known for catalytic-antibody chemistry including a 1995 Nature paper, and IUPAC's president since 2024.

Ehud Olmert (אהוד אולמרט)

Ehud Olmert (אהוד אולמרט), Israeli prime minister 2006–2009, former Likud Knesset member and Jerusalem mayor, led Kadima, the 2006 Lebanon War, and Annapolis talks, later jailed for bribery.

Ehud Shabtai

Ehud Shabtai is an Israeli software engineer who founded the community mapping project FreeMap Israel in 2006 and co-founded Waze, the crowdsourced traffic and navigation app Google bought in 2013.

Ehud Y. Isacoff

Ehud Y. Isacoff is a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley who studies ion channels, synapse assembly, and chemical optogenetics, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

Ehursag

Ehursag, Sumerian for 'house of the mountain', is a royal building at Ur in Iraq attributed to King Shulgi, whether palace, temple, or cult residence is debated.

Ehursagtila

Ehursagtila, also written Eḫursagtila, was a temple of the god Ninurta at Babylon, rebuilt by King Nabopolassar early in his reign (625–605 BC) and known from his clay-cylinder inscriptions.

Ei Hirai

Ei Hirai (平井瑛) is a Japanese technology founder and CEO of estie, a Tokyo commercial real estate data company he founded in 2018 after five years at Mitsubishi Estate.

Ei-ichi Negishi

Ei-ichi Negishi (根岸英一) was a Japanese chemist at Purdue University who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings, a reaction used in drug synthesis.

Eicher Motors

Eicher Motors Limited is an Indian automobile company headquartered in Chennai, known for Royal Enfield motorcycles and its majority stake in the truck maker VE Commercial Vehicles.

Eichhornia crassipes

Eichhornia crassipes, water hyacinth, now Pontederia crassipes, is a South American floating aquatic plant, one of the world's worst invasive weeds, controlled by Neochetina weevils and used for bioenergy and bioremediation.

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem, from her New Yorker reporting on the 1961 Jerusalem trial of Adolf Eichmann, coined 'the banality of evil' and sparked decades of controversy over her portrait of Eichmann and her criticism of the Jewish Councils.

Eichstätt

Eichstätt, Große Kreisstadt in Upper Bavaria on the Altmühl, seat of the Diocese of Eichstätt founded around 740 by Willibald and home to the only Catholic university in the German-speaking area; former prince-bishopric, about 14,000 inhabitants.

Eicke Latz

Eicke Latz, born 1970 in Wiesbaden, is a German immunologist known for NLRP3 inflammasome research; since 2023 he has led the German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin.

Eicosane

Eicosane, also called icosane or n-eicosane, is a straight-chain alkane with 20 carbon atoms and formula C₂₀H₄₂, a white crystalline solid used in thermal energy storage as a phase change material.

Eicosanoids

Eicosanoids: lipid signaling molecules made from 20-carbon polyunsaturated fatty acids, chiefly arachidonic acid, via COX, lipoxygenase, and cytochrome P450 pathways; includes prostaglandins, thromboxanes, and leukotrienes.

Eicosapentaenoic acid

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5n-3) is a long-chain omega-3 fatty acid from fish oil, precursor of prostaglandin-3 and resolvins; as icosapent ethyl it lowers triglycerides and reduces cardiovascular mortality, unlike mixed EPA/DHA.

Eid al-Adha (عيد الأضحى)

Eid al-Adha (عيد الأضحى), also called Kurban Bayram, is the Islamic festival of sacrifice on 10 Dhul-Hijjah, commemorating Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son through the slaughter of livestock.

Eid al-Fitr (عيد الفطر)

Eid al-Fitr (عيد الفطر), also called Eid ul Fitr, is the Islamic holiday marking the end of the Ramadan fast, on the first day of Shawwal.

Eid Mubarak (عيد مبارك)

Eid Mubarak (عيد مبارك) is an Arabic greeting meaning "blessed Eid," exchanged by Muslims at Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha; it is a supplication, not a holiday name.

EID Parry

EID Parry is a Chennai-headquartered sugar, biofuel, and consumer products company founded by Thomas Parry in 1788, which set up India's first sugar plant and operates as part of the Murugappa Group.

Eida Al Menhali

Eida Al Menhali (عيضة المنهالي) is an Emirati singer and composer known as "The Voice of the Emirates" and for the unaccompanied sung-poetry style Al Shallat.

EIDAS

eIDAS, short for Electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services, is the 2014 EU regulation making electronic identification, signatures, and other trust services work across borders within the EU.