Category: E

  • Emotional distress

    Feelings of frustration, fear, anxiety, or depression that occur when emotional needs are not being met. A legal term referring to a nonphysical injury caused by malpractice or other wrongdoing. “Emotional distress” is used in the context of deciding what kinds of injury are compensable; that is, the kinds of injury for which a plaintiff…

  • Emotional control

    The harnessing of emotions and using them for benefit or constructive results.  

  • Emotional contagion

    An emotion that spreads to others as in a mob.  

  • Emotional concealment

    Conscious or unconscious attempts to hide feelings interpreted as emotions.  

  • Emotional centers (of the brain)

    Center of emotions.  

  • Emmetropic

    Normal vision as regards to accommodation and refraction.  

  • Emmetropia

    Normal vision. The correct focusing of light rays by the eye onto the retina giving normal vision. State of normal vision, in which there is proper focus of light onto the retina. The state of refraction of the normal eye, in which parallel light rays are brought to a focus on the retina with the…

  • Emission

    Discharge of semen from the penis, especially involuntary, as during sleep, nocturnal emission. A discharge or release of fluid. Release of something, especially the uncontrolled discharge of semen during sleep (nocturnal emission). Also a component of the male sexual response, leading to ejaculation. The flow of semen from the erect penis, usually occurring while the…

  • Emissary

    One of the channels of communication between the venous sinuses of the dura mater and the veins of the diploe and the scalp.  

  • Emicback

    An acronym for Environmental Mutagen Information Center Backfile.