Category: E
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Embryo sac
In botany, a large thin-walled space within the ovule of the seed plant in which the egg and, after fertilization, the embryo develops.
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Embeddedness
To fix into a surrounding.
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Embden-meyerhof pathway
Glycolysis. A series of metabolic and enzymatic changes that occur in many plants and animals when glucose, glycogen, or starch is metabolized anaerobically to produce acetic acid. The process produces energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Embalm
The process of removing the blood from the corpse and replacing it with a preserving fluid. To preserve a dead body by using special antiseptic chemicals to prevent decay. The process of maintaining the condition of a deceased body involves injecting a mixture of carbolic acid, glycerine, and formaldehyde into the primary leg artery. This…
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Emasculate
To castrate.
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Emancipation of a child
Surrender of the right to care, custody, and earnings of a child by its parents who at the same time renounce parental duties.
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Elimination
Expulsion of wastes from the body. The removal of waste matter from the body. The expulsion of undigested food or body waste. Process of getting rid of material, as of waste products through the urine. Process of removal of undigested and residual liquids from the body. The entire process of excretion of metabolic waste products…
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Elicit
To bring forth or cause to be revealed.
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Elementary school
Usually refers to kindergarten through the 6th grade. An institution providing education to grades one through five, and sometimes also kindergarten and grades six through eight if these are housed in the same set of buildings; also called a primary school, grade school, or grammar school. From elementary school, children move either into middle school…
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Elementary body
A virus particle in an animal cell.