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Ernst Navratil
Ernst Navratil (1902–1979) was an Austrian physician and gynecologist who led the Graz university women's clinic from 1946 to 1973 and pioneered cervical cancer early detection in Austria.
Ernst Peter Pick
Ernst Peter Pick was an Austrian pharmacologist who led the University of Vienna's pharmacology institute until his 1938 Nazi expulsion, then taught at Columbia University in New York.
Ernst von Leyden
Ernst von Leyden (Ernst Viktor von Leyden, 1832–1910) was a German internist, professor in Berlin, who discovered Charcot–Leyden crystals and treated Bismarck and Tsar Alexander III.
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819–1892) was a German-born physiologist who headed physiology at the University of Vienna from 1849 to 1890, taught Sigmund Freud, and postulated water channels in 1843.
Ernst Witebsky
Ernst Witebsky (1901–1969) was a German-American immunologist who fled Nazi Germany to the University at Buffalo, proved autoimmunity with Noel Rose in 1957, and formulated the Witebsky postulates.
Ernst Wynder
Ernst Wynder, full name Ernst Ludwig Wynder, was a German-born American epidemiologist whose landmark 1950 case-control study implicated cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer.
Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker
Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, born 1941 in Frankfurt, is a German geneticist and biochemist who founded the Gene Center Munich and served as DFG president from 1998 to 2006.
Erodium
Erodium (stork's-bill, filaree), a genus of about 80–122 Geraniaceae herbs, mainly Mediterranean, known for long-beaked fruits whose hygroscopic awns explosively launch and drill seeds into soil; E. cicutarium is a widespread weed.
Erodium cicutarium
Erodium cicutarium, common stork's-bill or redstem filaree (芹叶牻牛儿苗), a Geraniaceae annual/biennial herb native to temperate Eurasia and North Africa, naturalized worldwide, with stork-bill fruits, ballistic seed dispersal, and up to 9,900 seeds per plant.
Erol Fikrig
Erol Fikrig is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Yale School of Medicine whose research on tick-borne disease led to an FDA-approved Lyme disease vaccine.
Eroom's law
Eroom's law, named by spelling Moore's law backwards, describes the decline in new drugs approved per billion inflation-adjusted R&D dollars since the 1950s, raising drug development costs.
Erosion of teeth
Erosion of teeth (dental erosion, erosive tooth wear, ICD-11 DA08.12) is irreversible acid dissolution of enamel and dentine without bacteria, from gastric acid or dietary, medicinal, and occupational acids, common in children and adults.
Erosive gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
Erosive gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (erosive oesophagitis, reflux esophagitis): GERD with endoscopic mucosal breaks graded LA A-D; LA-B or higher is conclusive evidence, treated with PPIs or P-CABs.
Erosive osteoarthritis
Erosive osteoarthritis is a severe, inflammatory form of hand osteoarthritis affecting mainly postmenopausal women, in which central subchondral erosions in the finger joints produce a gull-wing appearance on radiographs.
Erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp
Erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp (EPDS), also called erosive pustulosis, is a rare chronic inflammatory scalp disease of the elderly causing pustules, erosions, crusts, and scarring alopecia, treated mainly with potent topical corticosteroids.
Erotic asphyxiation
Erotic asphyxiation (breath play, asphyxiophilia) restricts oxygen or blood flow to the brain for sexual arousal; autoerotic forms cause an estimated 250-1,000 US deaths yearly, mostly by hanging.
Erotomania
Erotomania, or de Clérambault's syndrome, is a delusional disorder in which the patient believes a higher-status person loves them despite no contact; classified in ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR, linked to stalking, treated with antipsychotics and separation.
Erotomanic delusion
Erotomanic delusion (erotomania, de Clérambault's syndrome, ICD-11 MB26.04): the fixed belief that a higher-status person is in love with one; a delusional disorder subtype marked by paradoxical rationalization, stalking risk, and mood-disorder comorbidity.
Erotylidae
Erotylidae, pleasing fungus beetles, is a beetle family (Cucujoidea) of about 2,500–3,670 fungus-feeding, aposematically colored species; it now includes the former Languriidae (lizard beetles).
Errol C. Friedberg
Errol C. Friedberg was a South African-born American biologist whose research established how cells repair DNA damage, especially in xeroderma pigmentosum, and who led pathology at UT Southwestern.
Errol R. Norwitz
Errol R. Norwitz is a South African-born obstetrician-gynecologist and maternal-fetal medicine researcher, known for widely cited New England Journal of Medicine reviews, who became Chief Scientific Officer at Tufts Medical Center.
Ersodetug
Ersodetug (RZ358, XOMA 358) is Rezolute's investigational fully human IgG2 monoclonal antibody, a negative allosteric modulator of the insulin receptor, in Phase 3 trials for congenital and tumor hyperinsulinism hypoglycemia; not yet approved.
ERTAAD study
ERTAAD (European Registry of Type A Aortic Dissection), NCT04831073, is a retrospective multicenter European registry of 3,902 patients operated for acute type A aortic dissection from 2005 to 2021, reporting about 18% in-hospital mortality, urgency-grade risk stratification, and 15-year durability of repair strategies.
Eruca sativa
Eruca sativa, known as arugula, rocket, or rucola, is an annual Mediterranean herb in the mustard family grown as a peppery salad vegetable and for Taramira oil in India.
Eruca vesicaria
Eruca vesicaria, also called garden rocket or arugula (Eruca sativa), is an annual Brassicaceae herb native to Spain, Morocco, and Algeria, grown for pungent salad leaves and taramira seed oil.
Eruptive xanthoma
Eruptive xanthoma, ICD-11 EB90.22, is a skin marker of severe hypertriglyceridemia: sudden crops of 1–5 mm yellow papules on extensor surfaces and buttocks, with dermal foam cells on biopsy, resolving as triglycerides fall.
Ervin H. Epstein
Ervin H. Epstein is an American dermatologist who spent 35 years at UCSF, helped identify the PTCH gene behind basal cell nevus syndrome, and led the 2012 vismodegib trial.
Ervin Ray Fox
Ervin Ray Fox is an American cardiologist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center who studies heart disease in African Americans and received the 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.
Erwin Bünning
Erwin Bünning (1906–1990) was a German biologist and botanist, counted among the co-founders of chronobiology, known for his 1936 hypothesis that endogenous circadian clocks underlie photoperiodism.
Erwin Chargaff
Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist at Columbia University whose Chargaff's rules on DNA base composition helped lay the groundwork for the double-helix model.