Category: E

  • Elder

    Generally referring to persons over 60 years.  

  • Elastic tissue

    Specialized tissue lying in the lung and the great vessels and large arteries capable of stretching and recoiling. Connective tissue which contains elastic fibres, e.g. in the walls of arteries or of the alveoli in the lungs. Strong extensible flexible connective tissue rich in yellow elastic fibers. These are long, thin, and branching and are…

  • Elaborative rehearsal

    The process that facilitates transfer of information from the short-term to the long-term memory.    

  • Elaborative encoding

    The enhancement of the organization and meaningfulness of information.  

  • Ejusdem generis

    In law, of the same kind, class, or nature. In statutory construction, the rule is that, where general words follow an enumeration of words of a particular and specific meaning, the general words are not interpreted in their broader sense but as applying to persons or things of the same general kind or class as…

  • Ejecta

    Waste material excreted from the body. To send out something with force. Material, especially waste material, excreted by the body.  

  • Ejaculatory inevitability

    The first stage of orgasm in men, a feeling of having passed the point where ejaculation cannot be controlled as the vas deferens, seminal vesicles, and prostate start contracting.  

  • Ejaculatory duct

    The short passage at the end of the vas deferens that empties into the urethra. One of two ducts leading from the seminal vesicles through the prostate gland to the urethra. A short tube in which sperm from the epididymis (by way of the vas deferens) mixes with fluids from the prostate gland and secretions…

  • Ejaculatory anhedonia

    Ejaculation not accompanied by orgasm.  

  • Ejaculation praecox

    Premature ejaculation. A situation where a man ejaculates too early during sexual intercourse.