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Eidetic
Eidetic Characterized by vividly precise and accurate recall of objects, events, sounds or other imagery previously perceived.
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Imagery
In mental life, the collective representation of mental images or depictions of anything either perceived (perceptual imagery) or, if not actually present as a sensory stimulus, recognized in memory (memory imagery), or in dream, confabulation, or fantasy (fictive imagery). Imagery refers to a predominantly visual sensory modality of input.
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Eidetic image
Unusually vivid and apparently exact mental image; may be a memory, fantasy, or dream.
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Epitope
An alternative term for antigenic determinant.
Equivalence zone
In a precipitin reaction, the region in which the concentration of antigen and antibody leads to maximal precipitation.
Exon
The region of DNA coding for a protein or a segment of a protein.
Effeminate
A womanish or sissyish manner and bearing in a man or boy stigmatized as an unmanly homosexual.
Ego dystonic
In psychiatry, the term used to apply to a proclivity, for example, toward homosexuality, in a person who seeks to repudiate it.
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Elective mutism
Failure to speak, or to be able to speak about certain topics, that is not necessarily permanent but is reversible under changed circumstances.
Electrocutophilia
A paraphilia of the sacrificial and expiatory stratagem in which sexuoerotic arousal and orgasm is dependent upon the use of electrical stimulation of the body to possibly include the nipples, urethra, penis/scrotum, vulva/clitoris/vagina and anal/rectal tissues. This paraphilia has been seen to occur more frequently among women than in men and has also resulted in accidental death. The activities of electrocutophilia may be exploratory or varietal sex play and not a paraphilia. It also may be part of a sadomasochistic repertory. Devices for "safe" sexuoerotic electrostimulation are now commercially available.
Electrolysis
For cosmetic reasons, a method of removing hair by inserting a needle into the hair-growing follicle and killing it with a pulse of electric current.
Eligibility
Having the required qualification.
Endocrine gland
One of the body's ductless glands from which a hormone is secreted directly into the bloodstream.
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