Category: E

A treatment sometimes recommended for women in the climacteric who experience severe symptoms reduces or completely alleviates hot flashes. However, there is some evidence that may increase the risk of uterine cancer. Administration of estrogen to women who have a deficiency of this hormone (e.g., menopausal and postmenopausal women) and women with hypothalamic amenorrhea. The…

A diagnostic test to determine whether a cancer’s growth is dependent upon estrogen.  

In law, a bar raised by the law, which prevents a person from alleging or denying a certain fact because of his or her previous statements or conduct.  

To prevent, estoppel.  

In biology, a state of sluggishness induced by the heat and dryness of summer.  

In research, the process in statistical inference whereby a confidence interval is constructed around an observed value within which the population value is presumed to lie with a confidence expressed by odds, estimating.  

Making an educated guess.  

The sum of births plus abortions plus miscarriages. Miscarriages are estimated as 20% of all births added to 10% of all abortions.  

The process of forming an ester from an alcohol and an acid. The combination of an organic acid with an alcohol to form an ester.  

According to Maslow, the fourth set of human needs that include the human desire for self- respect and respect form others.