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Ephialtes of Trachis Ephialtes (Greek: ; but Herodotus spells without the aspiration Epialtes, ) was the son of Eurydemus of Malis. He caused the defeat of the Spartan king Leonidas at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, by helping the Persian king Xerxes I find another route around the pass of Thermopylae that would allow him to outflank the Greeks.
Ephod The ephod (pronounced either ē´fod or ef´od) was one of eight ritual garments worn by the Israelite and later the Jewish High Priest while serving in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. Though it is sometimes translated as "apron", the ephod was most likely a "skirt" with two shoulder straps, to which the golden breastplate was attached, and a belt to tie it in front.
Ephod Clothing The Ephod Clothing Company is a clothing design firm located in the midwestern United States, primarily focusing on high fashion t-shirts, bags and hats with graphic and textual design. The company is best known for the socially conscious themes expressed in their designs, particularly regarding trafficking in human beings.
EphPod ephPod (pronounced Eef-Pod) is a freeware program for Microsoft Windows and Linux that enhances the interacton between Apple Computer's iPod digital audio player and the computer. It has become one of the better alternatives to the official software for the purpose, Apple's iTunes.
EphraĂŻm Inoni EphraĂŻm Inoni (born 16 August, 1947) is the Prime Minister of Cameroon. He is a longtime loyalist and assistant of President Paul Biya"Biya aide named premier, cabinet reshuffled", IRIN, December 13, 2004.
Ephraim Ephraim (Hebrew: אֶפְרַיִם/אֶפְרָיִם, Standard Efráyim Tiberian ʾEp̄ráyim/ʾEp̄rāyim) – "double fruitfulness" ("for God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction").
Ephraim Alnaqua Ephraim ben Israel Alnaqua (d.1442) (Hebrew: אפרים בן ישראל אלנאקוה) (also, "Al-Nakawa", "Al-Nakava", "Ankava", "Ankoa", "Alnucawi", etc, Hebrew: "נקוה", "אלנאקוה", "אנקווה", "אנקאווא") was a physician, rabbi, theological writer, and founder of the Jewish community at Tlemçen, North Africa, in which place he died in 1442.
Ephraim Anderson Ephraim Saul "Andy" Anderson (28 October 1911-14 March 2006) was a British bacteriologist, best known for his work highlighting the human health dangers of drug-resistant bacteria created by antibiotics, in particular by low-dose antibiotic use in animal feeding.
Ephraim Bee Ephraim Bee (December 26, 1802–October 23, 1888) was an American pioneer, blacksmith, and inn-keeper from Doddridge County, West Virginia. He represented Doddridge County in the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1863 and 1866-1867.
Ephraim Deinard Ephraim Deinard (1846-1930) was one of the greatest Hebrew "bookmen" of all time. He was a bookseller, bibliographer, publicist, polemicist, historian, memoirist, author,editor, and publisher, all rolled into one.
Ephraim ibn al-Za'faran Ephraim ibn al-Za'faran was a Jewish physician who lived in Cairo in the eleventh century. He was renowned for his extensive library of medical and other scientific texts, and at some point was appointed court physician for the Fatimid Caliph Ma'ad al-Mustansir.
Ephraim in the wilderness Ephraim in the wilderness - (John 11: 54), According to the Bible was a town to which Jesus retired with his disciples after he had raised Lazarus, and when the priests were conspiring against him. It lay in the wild, uncultivated hill-country to the north-east of Jerusalem, between the central towns and the Jordan valley.
Ephraim Island, Queensland Ephraim Island is the name of a holiday resort located in the Gold Coast, Australia. The resort is distinctive for inhabiting an artificial Island in the Broadwater, connecting to the mainland at adjacent Paradise Point.
Ephraim Lewis Ephraim Lewis (born 1968 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England; died March 18, 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an English soul/neo-soul and R&B singer. He was one of many highly anticipated performers that emerged in the early 1990s.
Ephraim Morse Ephraim W. Morse (October 16, 1823–January 17, 1906) was an early settler of the city of San Diego, and was partially responsible for many of its expansions as a city, such as attracting the Santa Fe Railroad and proposing Balboa Park.
Ephraim Salaam Ephraim Salaam (born June 19, 1976 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American football player who currently plays offensive tackle for the Houston Texans. During Ephraim's career (especially with the Texans), he is best known for his blocking ablility.
Ephraim Sturdivant Captain Ephraim Sturdivant (February 14, 1782-August 30/31, 1868) was an American veteran of the War of 1812, namer of Cumberland, Maine, first person to bring merino sheep to Maine, a ship captain, and the first treasurer of Cumberland.
Ephraim Union Ephraim Union is a regional political party in the Indian state of Mizoram. EU belongs to the section in Mizoram that claims that the Mizos are descendants of the ten lost tribes of Israel, and advocates conversion to Judaism.
Ephraim Webster The first white settler in the central New York area around modern Syracuse, New York, Ephraim Webster, an interpreter of the Haudenosaunee (Onondaga (tribe) language, married a local Native American woman and was given permission to build a home (1786) in what became the hamlet of Onondaga Hollow on future Seneca Turnpike, south of the present center of Syracuse.
Ephrata Ephrata is the name of several places in the United States of America, named for Biblical Ephrath: on the road between Ephrath and Bethel, Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin (Genesis, xxxv:19). The modern city of Efrata in the West Bank occupies a site near the ancient one.
Ephrata, Pennsylvania Ephrata is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 38 miles (61 km) east by south of Harrisburg and about 57 miles (91 km) west by north of Philadelphia. It is named after Ephrath, a biblical town in what is now Israel.
Epibatidine Epibatidine is an alkaloid that originally is found in the skin of a neotropical poisonous frog, Epipedobates tricolor, found in modern Ecuador. It was initially isolated by John Daly at the National Institutes of Health, and was found to be a powerful analgesic, about 200 times more potent than morphine.
Epiblast In embryology, the epiblast is a class of cells present during gastrulation. It is one of two types of cells arising from the inner cell mass, but only epiblast cells give rise to the three germ layers of the embryo.
Epic (game) Epic is a series of tabletop wargames set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. However, where Warhammer 40,000 involves small battles between forces of a few squads of troops and two or three vehicles, Epic features battles between armies consisting of dozens of tanks and hundreds of soldiers.
Epic And Other Hits Epic And Other Hits is a compilation album released by Faith No More in 2005. Strangely, despite the album's title, only a handful of songs on it are actual hits, even though the band had other genuine hits which do not appear here.
Epic Battles Epic Battles is a collectible card game by Score Entertainment released in September 2005. Gameplay attempts to emulate a traditional fighting game experience and features characters and attacks from several different franchises.
Epic Cycle The Epic Cycle (Greek: Επικός Κύκλος) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems that related the story of the Trojan War, which includes the Kypria, the Aithiopis, the Little Iliad, the Iliou persis ("The Sack of Troy"), the Nostoi ("Returns"), and the Telegony. Scholars sometimes include the two Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, among the poems of the Epic Cycle, but the term is more often used to specify the non-Homeric poems as distinct from the Homeric ones.
Epic film The epic film is a film genre typically featuring expensive production values and dramatic themes. The name is derived from the grand themes, stories and characters of epic poetry, and is often used as a shorthand for "sword and sandal" films, although it can also refer to films in other genres.
Epic hero An epic hero is a larger-than-life figure from a history or legend, usually favored by or even partially descended from deities, but aligned more closely with mortal figures in popular portrayals. The hero participates in a cyclical journey or quest, faces adversaries that try to defeat him in his journey, and returns home significantly transformed by his journey.
Epic Kamboja, Iranian Kambujiya Epic Mahabharata refers to a king or warrior whom it calls Kamboja. The name appears in the long list of important monarchs and other celebrated personages of remote antiquity all connected with the tradition of Daivi Khadga or Divine sword referenced in the great epic.
Epic Level Handbook The Epic Level Handbook is a rulebook by Wizards of the Coast containing rules for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition characters to attain levels above 20, the limit in the core rulebooks. It provides epic-level progression information for all the core classes in the Player's Handbook and the prestige classes listed Dungeon Master's Guide, as well as the classes from the Psionics Handbook.
Epic mount An epic mount is a term from World of Warcraft and refers to the riding animal used to increase a player's movement speed by 100%. Available epic mounts include horses, tigers, mechanical chickens, wolves, demon horses, raptors and others.
Epic Movie Epic Movie is an American 2007 spoof/parody film that is directed and written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer and produced by Paul Schiff. The film mainly spoofs some of the high box office grossing epic films of 2005 and 2006: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, X-Men: The Last Stand, Superman Returns, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Epic of Darkness The Epic of Darkness (黑暗传 Hēi Àn Zhuàn) is a collection of tales and legends of primeval China in epic form, preserved by the inhabitants of the Shennongjia mountain area in Hubei. As such, it is the only such collection preserved by people classed as belonging to the Han nationality.
Epic of Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Babylonia and is among the earliest known literary works. A series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh, thought to be a ruler of the 3rd millennium BC, were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem long afterward, with the most complete version extant today preserved on twelve clay tablets in the library collection of the 7th century BC Assyrian king Assurbanipal.
Epic of Köroğlu The Epic of Köroğlu (Turkish: Köroğlu destanı) is a legend prominent in the oral traditions of the Turkic peoples. The legend first began to take shape sometime around the 11th century CE, at about the same time as another common Turkic legend, that of Dede Korkut.
Epic of King Gesar The Epic of King Gesar is the premier epic poem of Tibet and much of Central Asia. With about 140 Gesar ballad singers surviving today (including singers of Tibetan, Mongolian and Tu ethnicities), it is prized as one of the last living epics (although parts of the Turkic Epic of Manas are also still regularly performed by manaschi in Kyrgyzstan).
Epic poetry The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, and one of the major forms of narrative literature. It retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons.
Epic Pinball Epic Pinball is a 1993 pinball computer game developed by Digital Extremes and published by Epic MegaGames (now Epic Games). The game was designed and programmed primarily by James Schmalz and is played seen from a 2D top-down view.
Epic Pooh Epic Pooh is a 1978 article by the British science fiction writer Michael Moorcock, originally written for the British Science Fiction Association, and revised for inclusion in his 1987 book Wizardry and Wild Romance. In it, Moorcock reviews the field of epic fantasy, with a particular focus on epic fantasy written for children.
Epic Proportions Epic Proportions is a comic play written by Larry Coen and David Crane. It is set in the 1930s and tells the story of two brothers, Benny and Phil, who go to the Arizona desert to work as extras in the Biblical epic film, "Exeunt Omnes," directed by the reclusive and mysterious D.
Epic Science Fiction and Fantasy Epic Science Fiction and Fantasy (EpicSFF) is an Ezine with regular articles, interviews, and reviews on the science fiction and fantasy industry. The Ezine was founded on June 1, 2004 and originated as a Yahoo!
Epic Soundtracks Epic Soundtracks was the stage name of Kevin Paul Godfrey (23 March 1959 - 5 November, 1997), who was a British musician. He was brought up in Leamington Spa with his brother Nicholas, who was known as Nikki Sudden.
Epic Systems Corporation Epic Systems Corporation is a privately held healthcare IT company founded in 1979 by Judy Faulkner. Originally headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Epic began moving staff to its new facilities in nearby Verona, Wisconsin in 2005.
Epic theater Epic theater, also known as theater of alienation or theater of politics, is a theater movement arising in the early to mid-20th century, inextricably linked to the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Though many of the concepts involved in epic theater had been around for years, even centuries, Brecht unified them, developed the style, and popularized it.
Epica (band) Epica is a Dutch symphonic metal band which puts emphasis on the use of operatic elements and death grunts, also performing some song passages in Latin. It was founded by guitarist and vocalist Mark Jansen subsequent to his departure from After Forever.
Epica (RAID series) Epica is the newest RAID storage array series (as of 2006) from Proware Technology Corporation. The Epica series is composed of 2U, 3U, and 4U enclosures consisting of 4Gb FC-FC, FC-SAS/SATA II, SAS-SAS/SATA II, and SCSI-SATA II interaces.
Epicanthoplasty Epicanthoplasty is a type of eye surgery to reduce appearance of epicanthal folds. It is considered to be a challenging procedure by some surgeons because the epicanthal folds overlay the lacrimal canaliculi Meronk, F.
Epicenter The epicenter or epicentre (ancient Greek: επίκεντρον) is the point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the point where an earthquake or other underground explosion originates. The epicenter is directly above the hypocenter, the actual location of the energy released inside the earth.
Epiclesis In Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Assyrian Church of the East, Roman Catholic, Anglican, Old Catholic, United Methodist, and Lutheran churches, the epiclesis (also sometimes spelled epiklesis, since it is a transliterated Greek word) is that part of the prayer of consecration of the Eucharistic elements (bread and wine) by which the priest invokes the Holy Spirit. Some Eastern Orthodox theologians hold that the epiclesis is essential to the Eucharist, since the entire mystery is based on the action of the Holy Spirit.
Epicotyl In plant physiology, the epicotyl is the embryonic shoot above the cotyledons. In dicots, the hypocotyl is what appears to be the base stem under the spent withered cotyledons, and the shoot just above that is the epicotyl.
Epicure (band) Epicure are an Australian rock band from Ballarat, in regional Victoria. They came to national prominence in 2003 when two of their tracks, "Armies Against Me" and "Life Sentence", were picked up by Triple J radio.
Epicuticle The epicuticle is the outermost portion of the exoskeleton of an insect (and various other arthropods); its exact composition and structure may differ somewhat among different taxa, but certain aspects can be generalized:
Epicyclic gearing Epicyclic gearing or planetary gearing is a gear system that consists of one or more outer gears, or planet gears, rotating about a central, or sun gear. Typically, the planet gears are mounted on a movable arm or carrier which itself may rotate relative to the sun gear.
Epicycloid In geometry, an epicycloid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle — called epicycle — which rolls around without slipping around a fixed circle. It is a particular kind of roulette.
Epicyon Epicyon is an extinct canid genus of the subfamily Borophaginae ("bone-crushing dogs"), native to Miocene North America. This genus contained several species of the largest canids to have ever lived, such as Epicyon haydeni, which stood 37 inches (0.
Epidauria The name Epidauria is derived from the first instance of medical tourism or health tourism that occurred thousands of years ago when Greek pilgrims traveled from all over the Mediterranean to the small territory in the Saronic Gulf called Epidauria. This territory was the sanctuary of the healing god Asklepios.
Epidaurus Epidaurus (Greek: , Epidauros) was a small city (polis) in ancient Greece at the Saronic Gulf. The modern town Epidavros (Επίδαυρος), part of the prefecture of Argolis, was built near the ancient site.
Epideictic Epideictic rhetoric, or ceremonial rhetoric, is one of the three branches, or "species" (eidē), of rhetoric as outlined in Classical rhetoric. This is rhetoric of ceremony, declamation, and demonstration, most often the rhetoric of funerals and other formal events.
Epidemic In epidemiology, an epidemic (from Greek epi- upon + demos people) is a disease that appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is "expected", based on recent experience (the number of new cases in the population during a specified period of time is called the "incidence rate"). (An epizootic is the same thing but for an animal population.
Epidemic Intelligence Service The Epidemic Intelligence Service is a program of the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Established in 1951 due to biological warfare concerns arising from the Korean War, it has become a hands-on two-year postgraduate training program in epidemiology, with a focus on field work.
Epidemic Records Epidemic Records is a hip-hop record label that was founded by producers Cool and Dre and is distrbuted by Jive Records. Though, Tony Sunshine was signed to them, it is said that Fat Joe has found another Label opportunity for him elsewhere.
Epidemiology Epidemiology is the scientific study of factors affecting the health and illness of populations, and serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine. It is considered a cornerstone methodology of public health research, and is highly regarded in evidence-based medicine for identifying risk factors for disease and determining optimal treatment approaches to clinical practice.
Epidemiology and methodology of suicide It is probable that the incidence of suicide is widely under-reported due to both religious and social pressures, and possibly completely unreported in some areas. Nevertheless, from the known suicides, certain trends are apparent.
Epidendrosaurus Epidendrosaurus ("upon-tree lizard") was an Early Cretaceous (or possibly Middle Jurassic, see "Provenance") maniraptoran dinosaur and probably the sole genus in the family Scansoriopterygidae. It was the first non-avian dinosaur found that had clear adaptations to an arboreal or semi-arboreal lifestyle--it is likely that it spent much of its time in trees.
Epidermis (botany) The epidermis (pluralized either epidermises or sometimes epidermes) is the outer single-layered group of cells covering a plant, especially the leaf and young tissues of a vascular plant including stems and roots. Epidermis and periderm are the dermal tissues in vascular plants.
Epidermophyton Epidermophyton is a genus of fungus causing superficial and cutaneous mycoses, including E. floccosum, a cause of tinea corporis (ringworm), tinea cruris (jock itch), tinea pedis (athlete’s foot), and onychomycosis or tinea unguium, a fungal infection of the nail bed.
Epidosite Epidosite (IPA: ) is a highly altered epidote and quartz bearing rock. It is the result of extreme hydrothermal fluid alteration of basalt that occurs below the black smokers within mid-oceanic ridge spreading centers.
Epidote Epidote is a calcium aluminium iron sorosilicate mineral, Ca2(Al, Fe)3(SiO4)3(OH), crystallizing in the monoclinic system. Well-developed crystals are of frequent occurrence: they are commonly prismatic in habit, the direction of elongation being perpendicular to the single plane of symmetry.
Epidural The term epidural is often short for epidural anesthesia, a form of regional anesthesia involving injection of drugs through a catheter placed into the epidural space. The injection can cause both a loss of sensation (anaesthesia) and a loss of pain (analgesia), by blocking the transmission of pain signals through nerves in or near the spinal cord.
Epidural space In the spine, the epidural space is the space outside the tough membrane called the dura mater (sometimes called the "dura"), and within the spinal canal, which is formed by the surrounding vertebrae. Adherent to the inside of the dura is a much thinner and more fragile membrane, the arachnoid mater.
EpiDoc The EpiDoc Collaborative, building recommendations for structured markup of epigraphic documents in TEI XML, was originally formed in 2000 by scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Tom Elliott, the former director of the Ancient World Mapping Center, with Hugh Cayless and Amy Hawkins. The guidelines have matured considerably through extensive discussion on the Markup list and other discussion fora, at several conferences, and through the experience of various pilot projects.
Epifany Slavinetsky Epifany Slavinetsky (Епифаний Славинецкий in Russian) was an ecclesiastical expert of the Russian Orthodox Church who helped Patriarch Nikon to revise the ancient service-books, thus precipitating the Great Schizm of the national church.
Epifluorescence microscopy Epifluorescence microscopy is a method of fluorescence microscopy that is widely used in Life Sciences. In this process, instead of transmitting the excitatory light through the specimen it is passed through the objective onto the specimen.
Epigenetic code The epigenetic code is hypothesized to be a defining code in every eucaryotic cell consisting of the specific epigenetic modification in each cell. It consists of histone modifications defined by the histone code and additional epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation.
Epigenetic controls in ciliates Epigenetic controls in ciliates. Ciliates are protozoans with a unique characteristic: they possess two kinds of nucleus (this phenomenon is called nuclear dimorphism) a micronucleus used for inheritance, and a macronucleus, which controls the metabolism.
Epigenetic landscape Epigenetic landscape is a metaphor for biological development. Its originator, Conrad Hal Waddington, said that cell fates were established in development much like a marble rolls down to the point of lowest local elevation.
Epigenetic robotics Epigenetic robotics is an interdisciplinary research area with the goal of understanding biological systems by the integration between neuroscience, developmental psychology and engineering sciences. Epigenetic systems are characterized by a prolonged developmental process through which varied and complex cognitive and perceptual structures emerge as a result of the interaction of an embodied system with a physical and social environment.
Epigenetics Epigenetics is the study of epigenetic inheritance, a set of reversible heritable changes in gene function or other cell phenotype that occur without a change in DNA sequence (genotype). These changes may be induced spontaneously, in response to environmental factors, or in response to the presence of a particular allele, even if it is absent from subsequent generations.
Epigenomic map The epigenomic map, in analogy to the human genome map, is a diagramatic representation of the gene expression, DNA methylation and histone modification status of a particular genomic region. (see also epigenetics)
Epiglottal plosive The epiglottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is >.
Epiglottal trill Epiglottal consonants are often allophonically trilled, and in some languages the trill is the primary realization of the consonant. Although there is no official symbol for an epiglottal trill in the IPA, ŃŹ (reversed , homographic to Cyrillic ya) is occasionally used in the literature.
Epiglotto-pharyngeal consonant An epiglotto-pharyngeal consonant is a newly reported type of consonant, articulated with the epiglottis against the back wall of the pharynx. This contrasts with the pharyngeal consonants, where the root of the tongue contacts the back wall of the pharynx, and prototypical epiglottal consonants, where the aryepiglottal folds contact the epiglottis.
Epigoni (epic) Epigoni (Greek: Επίγονοι, Epigonoi "The Progeny") was an early Greek epic, a sequel to the Thebaid and therefore grouped in the Theban cycle. Some ancient authors seem to have considered it a part of the Thebaid and not a separate poem.
Epigonion An epigonion was an ancient stringed instrument mentioned in Athenaeus (183 C), probably a psaltery. The epigonion was invented, or at least introduced into Greece by Epigonus, a Greek musician of Ambracia in Epirus, who was admitted to citizenship at Sicyon as a recognition of his great musical ability and of his having been the first to pluck the strings with his fingers, instead of using the plectrum.
Epigrams on Programming Epigrams on Programming is an article by Alan Perlis published in 1982, for ACM's SIGPLAN journal. They are a series of short, programming language neutral, humorous statements about computers and programming.
Epigraphy Epigraphy (Greek, ἐπιγραφή - "written upon") is the study of inscriptions or epigraphs engraved into stone or other durable materials, or cast in metal, the science of classifying them as to cultural context and date, elucidating them and assessing what conclusions can be deduced from them. A person studying this is called an epigrapher or epigraphist.
Epigynous berry An epigynous berry or false berry is an accessory fruit found in certain plant species with an inferior ovary, distinguishing it from a true berry. In these species other parts of the flower (including the basal parts of the sepals, petals, and stamens) can ripen along with the ovary, forming the false berry.
Epicharis The genus Epicharis contains fewer than 40 species of large apid bees occurring from the Neotropics (from Mexico to Argentina), most of which possess adaptations for carrying floral oils rather than (or in addition to) pollen or nectar. The floral oils are typically gathered from plants of the family Malpighiaceae, though other plants may be visited.
Epik High Epik High is a Korean Hip-Hop group known for hit songs like "Fly", "Day of Peace", "I Remember" and "Paris". The group was unknown to many Koreans in the beginning of their career due to the lack of popularity of hip-hop music in Korea.
Epikeratophakia Epikeratophakia is a refractive surgical procedure in which a donor cornea is transplanted to the anterior surface of the patient's cornea. A lamellar disc from a donor cornea is placed over the de-epithelialized host cornea and sutured into a prepared groove on the host cornea.
Epilepsia partialis continua Epilepsia partialis continua is a rare type of brain disorder in which a patient experiences recurrent motor epileptic seizures that are focal (hands and face), and recur every few seconds or minutes for extended periods (days or years).
Epilepsy Currents Epilepsy Currents (ISSN 1535-7597), the official journal of the American Epilepsy Society (AES), was founded in 2001. The journal publishes commentaries on research articles of particular interest to epileptologists.
Epilepsy Foundation of America The Epilepsy Foundation, also Epilepsy Foundation of America (EFA), is a non-profit national foundation, headquartered in Landover, Maryland, dedicated to the welfare of people with epilepsy and seizure disorders. The foundation was established in 1968 and now has a network of 59 affiliates.
Epilepsy surgery Epilepsy surgery involves a neurosurgical procedure where an area of the brain involved in seizures is either resected, disconnected or stimulated. The goal is to eliminate seizures or significantly reduce seizure burden.
Epilobium Epilobium is a genus of about 160-200 species of flowering plants in the family Onagraceae, native to temperate and subarctic regions of both hemispheres. Most species are known by the common name Willowherb; other names for individual species include Fireweed, Zauschneria, California-fuchsia, Spike-primrose, Hummingbird Flower, and Hummingbird Trumpet.
Epilogue An epilogue, or epilog, is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature or drama, usually used to bring closure to the work. The writer or the person may deliver a speech, speaking directly to the reader, when bringing the piece to a close, or the narration may continue normally to a closing scene.
Epilogue (Justice League Unlimited episode) "Epilogue" (airdate July 23 2005) is the season finale episode in season two of the animated series Justice League Unlimited. In addition, this episode also tied together and continued some plot points from the cancelled Batman Beyond animated series, which was written by the same team.
Epimanikia Epimanikia (singular epimanikion) are liturgical vestments of the Eastern Orthodox Church. They are fabric cuffs, usually brocade, that lace onto the wrists of a bishop, priest, or deacon to contain the sleeves of the sticharion.
Epimedium Epimedium, also known as Barrenwort, Bishop's Hat, Fairy Wings, Horny Goatweed, or Yin Yang Huo (Chinese : 淫羊藿), is a genus of about 25 species of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Berberidaceae. They are native to southern Europe, and central, southern and eastern Asia.

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