Category: E

  • Enforcement techniques

    In drug law enforcement, methods used by local, state, and federal law enforcement agents to prevent illicit drug use, such as the use of informants, surveillance, undercover operations, drug raids, interdiction, and intelligence gathering.  

  • Enforceable contract

    In law, any contract not void or voidable because of being defective.  

  • Energy balance

    The state that exists when caloric intake equals caloric expenditure. When energy balance is zero, energy intake equals energy expenditure. When energy balance is positive, intake exceeds expenditure and weight is gained. When energy balance is negative, expenditure exceeds intake and weight is lost. When an individual is in energy balance, dietary energy consumed is…

  • Energizer

    In medicine, a drug that has a stimulating effect on the central nervous system or other body organs or systems.  

  • Energize

    To make an electrical circuit alive by applying voltage to allow current to flow through.  

  • Energetics

    The study of energy, especially in relation to human use of energy in the form of food and the expenditure of energy in work or athletic exercise. The physical laws of energy and thermodynamics that apply to all chemical reactions.  

  • Endurance

    The ability of a muscle to remain contracted or to contract and relax many times. The ability to withstand extraordinary mental or physical stress for a prolonged period.  

  • Endowment funds

    Funds received from a donor with the restriction that the principle is not expendable, endowment.  

  • Endowment

    The portion of an institution’s income derived from donations, endowment funds.  

  • Endotrachial tube

    A tube that can be inserted into the trachea through the nose or mouth as an artificial airway.