Category: E

Infection of the hair in which the fungus mycelium penetrates the hair, forming spores, inside the hair shaft. Any fungus growing inside the hair shaft.  

Damage to inner blood vessel walls (endothelium) from a variety of sources causes platelet aggregation, vessel wall changes, and eventual atherosclerosis.  

Osmotic diffusion toward the inside of a cell or vessel.  

The innermost portion of the cytoplasm of the microzoan cell, consisting of the fluid plasmasol with granules, vacuoles, and the nucleus: ectoplasm. The portion of the cell between the cell membrane and nucleus that contains the cellular organelles. The inner cytoplasm of cells, which is less dense than the ectoplasm and contains most of the…

One of the three body types identified by Sheldon as indicative of one’s temperament: characterized by a person who is short and fat in the extreme and whose temperament is viscerotonia, that is, apprehensive, insecure, worried, amiable, and conforms to social conventions, ectomorphy; mesomorphy.    

In genetics, duplication of chromosomes without division of the nucleus, resulting in increased chromosome numbers within cells or endopolyploidy. Chromosome strands separate but the cells do not divide.  

Uterine cancer. A malignant growth of the uterus. Endometrial cancer, which usually develops after menopause, is the most common reproductive cancer in women. If detected and treated in an early stage, it is most often curable. Symptoms commonly include vaginal bleeding or spotting in a woman who has completed menopause or abnormal bleeding at any…

The removal of the uterine lining through the use of a suction instrument (aspirator) is sometimes used for menstrual extraction.  

Opiate-like substances within the central nervous system. Endorphins are thought to produce euphoria 200 times more powerful than an equivalent amount of morphine.  

In genetics, some form of genetic material in a cell, but not part of the cell’s normal complement.