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Ėl'khotovskiĭ nekropolʹ

Ėl'khotovskiĭ nekropolʹ (Эльхотовский некрополь), El'khotovo burial ground: Koban-culture necropolis in North Ossetia–Alania with 58 burials of the 8th–7th centuries BCE plus 26 medieval 14th-century burials, excavated 1996–2005 by V. T. Chshiev.

EL5-Energo

EL5-Energo, known until 2022 as Enel Russia, is a Russian publicly traded power generator majority-owned by LUKOIL, with 25 plants and 9.5 GW installed capacity after its 2026 merger.

Ela Bhatt

Ela Bhatt (1933–2022) was an Indian labor lawyer who founded SEWA, a trade union of poor self-employed women, in Ahmedabad in 1972 and led it until 1996.

Ela Minus

Ela Minus is the electronic solo project of Colombian musician Gabriela Jimeno Caldas, whose analog-synth albums include acts of rebellion (2020) and the Latin GRAMMY-nominated DÍA (2025).

Ela-May Demircan

Elá-May Melek Demircan (born 2006, Crewe, Cheshire) is a British actress of Turkish heritage who played Leah Barnes in Hollyoaks from 2011 to 2024 across 326 episodes, leaving in the 2024 cast cutbacks before the role was recast with Charlotte Riley.

Elaan (एलान)

Elaan (एलान) is a 1994 Hindi action film directed by Guddu Dhanoa, starring Akshay Kumar, Amrish Puri, and Madhoo, about a policeman's son taking vigilante justice; a Tridev Arts hit released 21 January 1994.

Elaboration likelihood model

Elaboration likelihood model (ELM), Petty and Cacioppo's dual-process persuasion theory: central route (effortful argument scrutiny) versus peripheral route (cues), determined by motivation and ability to elaborate.

Elacestrant

Elacestrant (Orserdu, Korserdu; RAD1901) is an oral selective estrogen receptor degrader approved by the FDA in January 2023 for ER-positive, HER2-negative, ESR1-mutated advanced or metastatic breast cancer after endocrine therapy, based on the phase III EMERALD trial.

Elachistidae

Elachistidae (grass miner moths), a gelechioid moth family with about 1,075 described species in subfamilies Elachistinae and Parametriotinae; tiny narrow-winged adults whose larvae mine leaves of grasses and sedges.

Elacytarabine

Elacytarabine (CP-4055, Elacyt) is a lipophilic elaidic acid ester prodrug of cytarabine for relapsed/refractory AML; transporter-independent uptake, but its phase III CLAVELA trial showed no survival benefit over investigator's choice.

Elad Gil

Elad Gil is a San Francisco-based solo venture investor and founder of Gil & Co, known for early AI investments in OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity.

Elad Harel

Elad Harel is a physical chemist and assistant professor at Northwestern University who works on multidimensional ultrafast spectroscopy and halide perovskites, and received the 2016 PECASE award.

Elad Raz

Elad Raz is an Israeli technology entrepreneur, founder and CEO of NextSilicon, a Tel Aviv semiconductor startup founded in 2017 that builds the Maverick-2 accelerator for high-performance computing and AI.

Eladi Curna

Eladi Churna (Elādi Cūrṇa, Eladi Choornam) is a classical Ayurvedic herbal powder led by cardamom (Ela), official in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India (AFI Part-I, 7:5) with nine equal-part ingredients, used for kasa, shvasa, and vomiting.

Eladi ghrta

Eladi ghṛta (Elādi ghṛta) is a classical Ayurvedic medicated ghee formulation from Ashtanga Hrudayam, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India Part I 6:6 at 12 g, with cardamom-led herbs in cow ghee, used for abdominal pain, anemia, emaciation, eye diseases, and rejuvenation, distinct from Eladi gutika, churna, and taila.

ELADI GUTIKA

Eladi Gutika (Elaadi Gutika), an Ayurvedic polyherbal pill in the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India Part-II Vol-III, made of cardamom, cinnamon, long pepper, licorice, dates, raisins, sugar, and honey; traditionally used for cough, asthma, vomiting, vertigo, and haemoptysis.

Eladocagene exuparvovec

Eladocagene exuparvovec (Upstaza, Kebilidi) is a PTC Therapeutics AAV2 gene therapy delivering the DDC gene for AADC deficiency, approved in the EU in 2022 and by FDA in 2024.

Eladya Modaka

Eladya Modaka (Elādya modaka, एलाद्यमोदक) is a semisolid sweetened Ayurvedic avaleha from Bhaishajya Ratnavali, listed in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India (AFI000087, 12 g dose) for madatyaya, alcohol-related and digestive disorders.

Elaea

Elaea (Ἐλαία, Elaia, Kazıkbağları), ancient Aeolian port city of Pergamon on Turkey's Aegean coast; Attalid naval base with three harbours, flourishing 250 BC–AD 180, abandoned after harbour siltation.

Elaeagnaceae

Elaeagnaceae, the oleaster family (oleaster, sea buckthorn), is a Rosales family of three genera, Elaeagnus, Hippophae, Shepherdia, and ca. 100 Northern Hemisphere species with silvery scales, petal-less flowers, and Frankia nitrogen-fixing root nodules.

Elaeagnus

Elaeagnus (oleaster genus), family Elaeagnaceae, 93 accepted shrub/tree species with silvery scaled leaves, nitrogen-fixing Frankia nodules; includes invasive autumn olive and Russian olive and ornamental hybrids.

Elaeagnus angustifolia

Elaeagnus angustifolia, Russian olive or oleaster, a thorny deciduous Elaeagnaceae tree native from eastern Europe to temperate Asia; nitrogen-fixing, salt-tolerant, invasive in western North American riparian areas, and a traditional medicinal and food plant.

Elaeis

Elaeis, the oil palm genus (Arecaceae), includes African oil palm Elaeis guineensis and American E. oleifera; native to tropical Africa and tropical America, it supplies about 40% of world vegetable oil.

Elaeis guineensis

Elaeis guineensis, the African oil palm, is a tropical Arecaceae palm native to West and Central Africa, source of palm and palm-kernel oil; highest-yielding oil crop, grown on about 21 million hectares, mostly Indonesia and Malaysia.

Elaenia

Elaenia, genus of tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) established by Sundevall in 1836; about 21 cryptic, crested Neotropical species from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, split into three Pleistocene-diversified clades.

Elaeocarpaceae

Elaeocarpaceae Juss. (1816), a mainly tropical family of 12 genera and c. 600 species in Oxalidales; largest genera Elaeocarpaceae Elaeocarpus (c. 350) and Sloanea (c. 150); includes former Tremandraceae; absent from continental Africa.

Elaeocarpus

Elaeocarpus (rudraksha, quandong) is the largest genus of Elaeocarpaceae, about 350-483 species of Old World tropical trees with fringed petals, blue sculpted drupes, and beads, timber, and medicinal uses.

Elafibranor

Elafibranor (GFT505, Iqirvo) is a dual PPAR-alpha/delta agonist approved in 2024 for primary biliary cholangitis after UDCA failure; its NASH program was discontinued after phase 3 failure.

Elagabalus

Elagabalus (Varius Avitus Bassianus, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus), Roman emperor 218–222, teenage high priest of the Syrian sun-god Elagabal who brought the cult and its sacred stone to Rome, married repeatedly, and was murdered by the Praetorian Guard in 222.

Elagolix

Elagolix (Orilissa, Oriahnn) is the first FDA-approved oral non-peptide GnRH receptor antagonist, approved in 2018 for endometriosis pain and in 2020 with hormonal add-back for fibroid heavy menstrual bleeding.