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Ethnography
Ethnography
The branch of anthropology that studies the artifacts, customs, and life-styles of ethnic groups and tribes with different cultural histories.
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Ethnology
A science that concerns itself with the division of human beings into races and their origin, distribution, relations, and characteristics.
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Erotomania
Morbid exaggeration of, or preoccupation with sexuoerotic imagery and activity.
Erotophonophilia
A paraphilia of the sacrificial/expiatory type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and contingent on stage-managing and carrying out the murder of an unsuspecting sexual partner. The erotophonophile's orgasm coincides with the expiration of the partner. The reciprocal paraphilic condition is autassassinophilia.
Erotosexual
The erotic and the sexual experienced as a unity, with more emphasis on erotic imagery and ideation than sexual behavior. It is possible to be erotic without being sexual in the sense of copulation, fertility, or reproduction. Conversely, it is possible, as in donor insemination, to be sexual without being erotic. see erotic/sexual. the erotic and the sexual experienced as a unity, with more emphasis on erotic imagery than sexual behavior.
Estradiol
The most biologically potent of the naturally occurring estrogens. It is produced chiefly by the ovary and in small amount by the testis. Commercially, it is prepared in various compounds, such as estradiol benzoate and ethinyl estradiol.
Estrus
Phenomenon of being sexually receptive, or in heat, as manifested at the ovulatory phase of the sexual cycle of the female, especially in subprimate species. The phenomenon of being sexually receptive, or in heat, as found in the sexual cycle of some species. A condition or syndrome of persistent estrus can be produced in some animals (for example, the rat) by hormonal injection of the newborn, notably with androgen.
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Etiology
The theory of the factors in the genesis, origin, or cause of a disorder or disease.
Eugenics
The science that deals with breeding to improve the heredity of a species or racial stock.
Eunuchoid
Having the developmental sexual characteristics and appearance resembling those of a person who, like a castrate, has failed to mature pubertally.
Eve principle
In fetal life the differentiation of a female always occurs in the absence of fetal testicular secretions (MIS and testosterone), regardless of chromosomal sex. If in the differentiation of a female testosterone is added, differentiation thenceforth proceeds as male.
Excitement phase
The first of the four sexual phases delineated by Masters and Johnson.
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