Category: E

  • Erector

    A small muscle which raises a body part.  

  • Erectile dysfunction

    A condition in which a man finds it difficult or impossible to have or maintain an erection during intercourse. Condition where the penis does not harden and expand when a man is sexually excited, or when he cannot keep an erection. ED can be a total inability to achieve erection, an inconsistent ability to do…

  • Eradication

    The act of removing something completely. Complete elimination of a disease, especially one that is epidemic or endemic. The eradication of a pathogenic microorganism or an injurious organism from the host or their surroundings, or both.    

  • Eradicate

    To remove something completely. To utterly eradicate something is to eliminate it entirely, bringing an end to its existence.  

  • Equipment

    Apparatus or tools which are required to do something.  

  • Epituberculosis

    Swelling of the lymph node in the thorax, due to tuberculosis. Enlargement of a lymph node in the thorax due to tuberculosis infection, causing the gland to press upon and occlude a bronchial tube, which may result in the collapse of a lung segment.  

  • Epispadias

    A congenital condition where the urethra opens on the top of the penis and not at the end. A congenital defect similar to hypospadias, in which a male’s urethra opens on the upper side of his penis, rather than at its head. Congenital abnormality in males in which the opening for passing urine (the urethra)…

  • Episodic

    Happening in separate but related incidents, e.g. asthma which occurs in separate attacks.  

  • Episode

    A separate occurrence of an illness. A series of events which is distinct in itself. For example, a period of fever which disappears may be an episode of fever within a continuous process, such as a chronic illness. An occurrence that is one in a sequence of events.  

  • Episiorrhaphy

    A procedure for stitching torn labia majora. Stitching together the margins of a tear in the tissues around the vaginal opening.