Category: E

  • Entamoeba histolytica

    The organism that causes amoebic dysentery. An intestinal amoeba which causes amoebic dysentery. A pathogenic species of ameba, the cause of amebic dysentery and tropical liver abscess.  

  • Enrollment

    In education, the total number of entering students in a given school unit.  

  • Enlightenment period

    The period in Europe during the eighteenth century.  

  • Enlightenment effect

    The change in a person’s attitudes due to a knowledge of theoretical predictions about his or her behavior. Such effects may threaten accurate predictions of behavior.  

  • Enjoin

    In law, to require a person, by writ of injunction from a court of equity, to perform, or to abstain or desist from, some act.  

  • Engrossing

    In politics, a procedure for incorporating any amendments and checking the accuracy of a printed bill.  

  • Engoged

    To become filled with blood or other fluid.  

  • English grammar school

    The model of elementary education in Colonial America.  

  • English as a second language (ESL)

    A component of virtually all bilingual education programs in the United States that is designed to help instruct students whose primary language is not English.  

  • Engagement

    A commitment to become married. The moment where part of the fetus, usually the head, enters the pelvis at the beginning of labour. In pregnancy, the beginning of the baby’s movement into the birth canal in preparation for delivery. This engaging, “falling,” or “dropping” of the baby is often quite noticeable, since the mother can…