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Epicolic

Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.

Epicondylar

Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle.

Epicondyle

A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the humerus; the internal condyle.

Epicoracoid

A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.

Epicranial

Pertaining to the epicranium; as, epicranial muscles.

Epicranium

The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.

Epictetian

Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances.

Epicure

A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean.

Epicureanism

Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.

Epicurize

To profess or tend towards the doctrines of Epicurus.

Epicycle

A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with the deferent, and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the body of the planet fastened to it round its proper center.

Epicycloid

A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.

Epicycloidal

Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.

Epideictic

Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

Epidemical Epidemic

Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.

epidemiology

That branch of medicine which studies the incidence and distribution of disease in a population, and uses such information to find the causes, modes of transmission, and methods for control of disease.

Epidermal

Of or pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular.

Epidermic

Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark.

Epidermis

The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.

Epidermoid

Like epidermis; pertaining to the epidermis.

Epididymis

An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.

Epididymitis

Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.

Epidote

A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.

Epidotic

Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.

Epigaea

An American genus of plants, containing but a single species (E. repens), the trailing arbutus.

Epigaeous

Growing on, or close to, the ground.

Epigastric

Pertaining to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region.

Epigene

Foreign; unnatural; unusual; -- said of forms of crystals not natural to the substances in which they are found.

Epigenesis

The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis.

Epigenesist

One who believes in, or advocates the theory of, epigenesis.

Epigenetic

Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.

Epiglottic

Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis.

Epiglottis

A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.

Epignathous

Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.

Epigram

A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.

Epigraph

Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.

Epigraphical Epigraphic

Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.

Epigraphy

The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.

Epigynous

Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.

Epihyal

A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.

Epilepsy

The /falling sickness,/ so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles.

Epileptogenous

Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions.

Epileptoid

Resembling epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions.

Epilogistic

Of or pertaining to epilogue; of the nature of an epilogue.

Epilogize

To speak an epilogue to; to utter as an epilogue.

Epilogue

A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.

Epimachus

A genus of highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds of Australia, allied to the birds of Paradise.

Epimere

One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf.

Epimeron

In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage. In insects: The lateral piece behind the episternum.

Epinastic

A term applied to that phase of vegetable growth in which an organ grows more rapidly on its upper than on its under surface. See Hyponastic.

Epineural

Arising from the neurapophysis of a vertebra.

Epineurium

The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath, or perineurium.

Epinglette

An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming.

Epiornis

One of the gigantic ostrichlike birds of the genus /piornis, only recently extinct. Its remains have been found in Madagascar.

Epiotic

The upper and outer element of periotic bone, -- in man forming a part of the temporal bone.

Epipedometry

The mensuration of figures standing on the same base.

Epiperipheral

Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at the extremities of nerves distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral.

Epiphany

An appearance, or a becoming manifest.

Epipharyngeal

Pertaining to the segments above the epibranchial in the branchial arches of fishes. An epipharyngeal bone or cartilage.

Epipharynx

A structure which overlaps the mouth of certain insects.

Epiphonema

An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.

Epiphora

The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.

Epiphragm

A membranaceous or calcareous septum with which some mollusks close the aperture of the shell during the time of hibernation, or estivation.

Epiphyllum

A genus of cactaceous plants having flattened, jointed stems, and petals united in a tube. The flowers are very showy, and several species are in cultivation.

Epiphysis

The end, or other superficial part, of a bone, which ossifies separately from the central portion, or diaphysis. The cerebral epiphysis, or pineal gland. See Pineal gland, under Pineal.

Epiphyte

An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant.

Epiplastron

One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles.

Epipleural

Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra.

Epiplexis

A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding.

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