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Vocabulary flashcards based on lecture notes.

Ebola

A very serious infectious disease with fever and bleeding inside the body.

Echelon

A level or rank in an organization, a profession, or society

Eczema

A skin condition in which areas of the skin become red, rough, and itchy.

Efficacy

The ability to produce intended results.

Efficiently

In a way that achieves maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.

Egregious

Extremely bad in a way that is very noticeable.

Elevate

To move or raise to a higher place or position; lift up.

Embolism

An obstruction of an artery, typically by a clot of blood or an air bubble.

Emetic

Something that causes vomit.

Emigrate

To leave a country permanently and go to live in another one.

Empathy

The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, or experiences of another

Endogenous

Found or coming from within something, such as a system or a person's body or mind.

Enigmatic

Someone or something mysterious and impossible to completely understand

Entreat

To plead with, especially in order to persuade

Ephemeral

Something lasting for only a short time.

Epidemiologist

Someone who studies diseases and how they are found, spread, and controlled in groups of people.

Equilibrium

A state of balance and stability especially necessary in biology for optimal functioning.

Eradicated

To get rid of something completely or to destroy something bad.

Etiology

The cause of a disease or abnormal condition

Euphemism

The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant

Euthanasia

Act or practice of causing death painlessly, so as to end suffering: advocated by some as a way to deal with persons dying of incurable, painful diseases.

Evict

To force someone to leave a place.

Evisceration

The process of removing one or all of the organs from the inside of a body.

Exacerbate

To increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of

Excess

The state of exceeding what is normal or sufficient.

Exogenous

Caused by factors or an agent from outside the organism or system

Expanding

To increase in extent, number, volume, or scope

Expectorate

To eject or expel matter, as phlegm, from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting

Expedite

To accelerate or speed up the process or progress of something

Expiate

To atone for guilt or sin

Exposure

The act of exposing, laying open, or uncovering

Extension

An act or instance of extending, lengthening, stretching out, or enlarging the scope of something.

External

To be applied to the outside of a body