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EMPOWERMENT

1. Promoting skills, knowledge and the confidence needed to take control of your life. 2. Delegation of increased power making

ENCAPSULATION

1. Keeping thing separate. 2. The enclosure that is a covering such as a sheath.

ENCULTURATION

1. A process starting in early childhood where cultural values, ideas etc are instilled into members of the society. 2.

ENDOGAMY

Marrying within your kinship, caste, religious or social group. Compare exogamy.

ENDORADIOSONDE

A miniature device with a radio transmitter implanted or ingested in a n animal to study internal reactions and beahviours.

ENGINEERING ANTHROPOMETRY

Ways of measuring static and dynamic features of the human body. See anthropometry- human engineering- human factors engineering.

ENTEROGASTRONE

Hormone secreted by the small intestine that inhibits gastric juioce secretion by the stomach.

ENVIRONMENT

All of the external factors around us that influence us.

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

The fair and impartial treatment of hazards so no group is exposed more than another.

EONISM

The adoption of one sex to use the other sexes voice as seen in transvestites.

EPIGASTRIC REFLEX

The spinal reflex that draws in the upper central region of the gastrointestinal wall elicited by a quick stroke with

EPIPHENOMENALISM

Taking the stand that physical events produce mental events such asthoughts and feelings but mental events don't produce physical events.

EPSILON MOVEMENT

The perception of motion occuring when a white line on a black background is changed to a black line on

EQUIPOTENTIALITY IN MEMORY

The theory that memory is contributed to by many parts of the brain and not just one area. See law

ERGOMETRY

Measure of physical work performed by muscles.

ERISA

Acronym for Employee retirement income security act.

EROTOGRAPHOMANIA

The obsession with erotic writing that is accompanied by a compulsion to write about seual matters.

ERYTHROPOIETIN

Protein produced by the kidneys and liver stimulating production of red cells in the bone marrow.

ESSENCE

Philosophy. The presumed reality at a things core that makes it what it is and not something else.

ESTIMATORS

The mental process used to judge quantity. Compare operators.