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Exemplar
Exemplar A person who becomes a pattern or model for oneself.
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Model
Reproduction of structures made by pouring plaster or stone into a mold.
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Exemestane
An oral antiestrogen. Exemestane inhibits the enzyme aromatase in the adrenal glands that produces the estrogens (estradiol and estrone) and thereby lowers their levels.
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center
Exempla Lutheran Medical Center is a hospital in Wheat Ridge, Colorado (USA).
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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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Exhibitionism
A paraphilia of the solicitational/allurative type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on evoking surprise, dismay, shock, or panic from a stranger by illicitly exhibiting an erotic part of the body, including the genitals. The reciprocal paraphilic condition is voyeurism, also known as being a "Peeping Tom". The condition of being responsive to, or dependent on the surprise, debasement, shock, or outcry of a stranger (usually female), unexpectedly exposed to the sight of the penis, in order to obtain one's erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. The actual event may be replayed in a masturbation or coital fantasy.
Exigency theory
In psychology, the theory that, regardless of its determinants, human responsivity is contingent upon five universal exigencies of existence: Pairbondedness; Troopbondedness; Ycleptance, Abidance; and Foredoomance.
Exocrine
Pertaining to a gland with a duct through which its secretion, for example, tears or saliva, passes.
Exogenous
Produced from without.
Exorcise
To expel or drive off an evil spirit with a special ritual; to deliver a person from being possessed by a demon.
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