Category: E
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Evidence
Facts, information, or data that support or refute a hypothesis. In forensic medicine, all the tangible items and record materials pertinent to the legal considerations.
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Everted
Turned outward.
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Eversearchers
Swingers who wish to supplement routine marital sex.
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Evaluation research
Programs of research that attempt to rigorously measure the results of implemented social programs. Such research can form the basis of changes in social policy.
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Evaluation program
The planned methods and procedures for measuring the extent to which the education program has achieved its objectives, evaluation. The evaluation of the effectiveness of specific programs or elements thereof.
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Evaluation devices
Instruments, procedures, and techniques available for assessing the elements of the school or community health program include the following: (a) observation, (b) interviews, (c) individual and group conferences, (d) self-appraisal checklists, (e) questionnaires f) surveys, (g) general checklists, (h) records, (i) reports, (j) achievement tests, and (k) simulations.
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Evaluation apprehension
A person’s concern with the possibility that other people will react to the quality of his or her performance.
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Evaluation
An appraisal, assessment, or measurement in the broadest and most complete sense. The act of examining and calculating the quantity or level of something. A rating or assessment, e.g., of the accuracy of a diagnosis, the effectiveness of a plan of care, or the quality of care.
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Evagination
A protrusion of some part of the body or of an organ. The protrusion of a part or organ from a sheathlike covering or by eversion of its inner surface.
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Eutrophication
The process by which oxygen is removed from water by the excessive growth of algae. Alteration of the environment by increasing the nutrients required by one species to the disadvantage of other species in the ecosystem, especially in an aquatic environment. The process of excessive algae growth followed by decay and lack of oxygen.