Category: E
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Extrauterine pregnancy
A pregnancy that occurs outside the uterus.
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Extruterine
Outside of the uterus: intrauterine.
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Extraschool
Activities or programs conducted out side of the school setting.
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Extrapyramidal
Pertaining to a motor control system in the central nervous system that is responsible for maintaining muscle tone and posture. Parkinson’s disease causes damage to this system. Antipsychotic drugs also interfere with the system, producing similar symptoms to those of Parkinson’s disease. Nerve fibers and their nuclei involved in motion. Outside the pyramidal tracts of…
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Extrapunitive aggression
Aggressive behavior directed toward other persons, extrapunitive.
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Extrapunitive
In epidemiology making quantitative or numerical predictions based on past or current rates or qualities. A tendency to evaluate the source of frustration as external and to direct hostility outward.
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Extrapolation
In epidemiology making quantitative or numerical predictions based on past or current rates or qualities.
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Extraneous disturbance
In information theory, noise.
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Extramural research
An investigative study that is undertaken outside the prescribed research agenda for the purpose of obtaining additional insight into some field of knowledge.
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Extramarital
Sexual relations with someone other than one’s spouse.