Category: E

For health educators, the point at which an individual is capable of performing the specifications of the role identified. Skills and knowledge necessary to perform the role can be obtained through successful completion of a bachelor’s degree program at an accredited university or college with major emphasis on health education.  

In social psychology, when one invests in a given outcome, and over time, the investment becomes more costly while the outcome becomes less probable.  

Living with an animal.  

The science concerned with the study of insects.  

Being or existence. A thing existing independently, containing in itself all the conditions necessary to individuality.  

The surgical construction of an artificial outlet for the intestine. A surgical operation to make an opening between the small intestine and the abdominal wall. Surgical creation of a permanent opening into the intestine through the abdominal wall performed in the treatment of cancer, Crohn’s disease, and sometimes malnutrition. An operation in which a surgeon…

A medicinal preparation that is specially coated to allow it to pass through the stomach and to disintegrate in the intestine. Referring to a capsule with a coating which prevents it from being digested and releasing the drug until it reaches the intestine. Describing tablets that are coated with a substance that enables them to…

Infection of the intestine.  

Pertaining to digestion. Referring to the intestine. The term “intestinal” pertains to or has an impact on the intestine, which is the central part of the digestive tract extending from the exit of the stomach to the anus.  

In Aristotelian philosophy, true existence or the actualization of potentials, actuality.