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ENABLING

1. Way of encouraging a person to meet their own needs and desires. 2. Process where aperson unwittingly aids a

ENCEPHALOPSY

The condition where colours are associated with numbers, letters, smells or another dimension.

ENDO- (END-)

The combining form of inside or internal.

ENDOMORPH

A body type in Sheldon's theory of personality. A soft, round physique, correlated with viscerotonia. Also called endomorphic body type.

ENEMA

Injecting liquids into the rectum for bowel radiography and to administer certain drugs.

ENLON

Trade name for edrophonium.

ENTORHINAL-CORTEX LESION

Lesions in the entorhinal cortex seen in temporal lobe epilepsy.

ENVIRONMENTAL DEPRIVATION

Lack of conditions to stimulate intellect and behavioural growth.

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS THEORY

Cognitive and autonomic factors look at the environment to appraise the stressors there asthreatening or not. Those that are threatening

EPIDEMIC

1. Being prevalent and widompare endemic- pandemic.

EPILEPTOGENIC FOCUS

The small area of the brain where the electrical impulses causing seizures originate.

EPISTEMOLOGICAL LONELINESS

A sense of separation and alienation from others.

EQUILIBRATION

The process used to assimilate and accomodate and restore to equilibrium.

EREMOPHILIA

A pathological desire to be alone.

ERGOTHERAPY

Treating a disease by muscular exercise.

EROTIC PARANOIA

A disorder where a person has erotic delusions. See erotomanic depusional disorder- delusional disorder.

ERROR OF HABITUATION

The tendency to continue witha previous response past the point where a transition should ocur.

ESCAPE TITRATION

The procedure where an animal presented with an aversive stimulus that increases in intensity over time can decrease the intensity

ESTAZOLAM

A high potency benzodiazepine used to treat short term insomnia.

ESTRUS

The stage in an estrous cycle where the female is receptive to the male. Also called heat. See estrous behaviour.