Category: E

An instrument used in exploration, especially a device used to locate foreign bodies or to define passageways in body sinuses or cavities.  

In epidemiology, to appear suddenly or have rapid onset.  

The adjustment of a pressure-support ventilator to the neurally mediated end of expiration. This machine adaptation to the patient’s respiratory efforts is a refinement of mechanical ventilation that decreases patient discomfort and the work of breathing.  

The interval between the end of one exhalation and the beginning of the next.  

An agreed-upon set of principles for the care of a particular disease or condition, established after a review of contemporary knowledge by specialists in the field.  

A scientific procedure used to test the validity of a hypothesis, gain further evidence or knowledge, or test the usefulness of a drug or type of therapy that has not been tried previously.  

To encounter something personally or undergo an event.  

To facilitate or speed up any process, e.g., to review and publish the results of important research rapidly.  

Relief of symptoms as they arise (i.e., not directed at the specific cause).  

Any of several methods used by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make available experimental treatments to patients who are not participating in formal clinical trials.