Category: E
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Endpoint
The final objective, result, or resolution of an illness, treatment, or research protocol. The point or time at which a reaction or activity is completed.
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Endoureterotomy
Endoscopic surgery to open a stricture in a ureter.
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Endotracheitis
Inflammation of the tracheal mucosa.
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Endotoscope
An earspeculum.
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Endothermy
An elevation of the temperature of local body tissue in response to high-frequency current.
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Endotherm
An organism that maintains a constant body temperature despite fluctuating environmental temperatures; the opposite of ectotherm.
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Endothelium-derived relaxing factor
An active vasodilator released by the vascular endothelium. It facilitates relaxation of vascular smooth muscle and inhibition of adhesion and aggregation of platelets. When the normal function of the endothelium is disrupted by mechanical trauma, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, or atherosclerosis, less EDRF is released and the inhibition of platelet aggregation is decreased. In addition, the damaged…
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Endotheliotoxin
A toxin that acts on endothelial capillary cells and causes bleeding.
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Endotheliomyxoma
A myxoma with elements of endothelium.
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Endotheliolytic
Capable of destroying endothelial tissue.