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ENTELECHY

Philosophy and metaphysics. The realisation as opposed to potential.

ENURESIS

The repeated and involuntary urination.

ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD

Gestalt psychology. The context in which an event occurs and its components interact.

ENZYME INHIBITION

Ability of drugs to impair enzyme action, mainly in the liver, to metabolise drugs or other substances.

EPIDERMIS

1. Outer, protective non vascular layer of the skin of vertebrates.2. Outer layers of cells of some invertebrates. 3. Outermost

EPINEPHRINE

A catecholamine neurotransmitter and adrenal hormone that is the end product of metabolising tyrosine. Also called adrenaline.

EPITHELIUM

The layer of cells covering the outer surface of the body and lining body cavities.

EQUIPMENT AUTOMATION

The degree that equipment can function without a person's input.

ERGOGRAM

Output from an ergograph showing the physical work done by muscles.

ERIKSEN FLANKERS TASK

A task where stimuli are assigned one of two responses and the particpant needs to respond to the target stimulus

EROTIZATION

Making any activty or part of the body erotic not usually though to be.

ERROR SCORE

Classical test theory. The diference between the expected score and the actual score.

ESP FREE-RESPONSE TEST

Parapsychology experiments where the gueses are not restricted to a set of determined responses. Compare ESP forced choice test.

ESTIMABLE FUNCTION

The function that the parameters of a model can be estimated from the data.

ETHEREAL

A odourant in the 7 classes of odourants in sterochemical smell theory.

ETHNOGRAPHY

Describing the study of cultures based on direct observation. Compare ethnology. See etnography.

EUERGASIA

The normal mental and psychobiological functioning

EUSTHENIC

A body type similar to aesthenic and close to athletic type in the Kretschmer Typology.

EVASION

1. Paralogia where an idea that is next logically is replaced by another closely related idea. 2. The elusion or

EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN

Concept dealing with the barin developing over many millions of years from a small bundle of nerve fibres. See cephalisation.