There are multiple definitions:

1. extracorporeal circulation(English)

   • bypassing blood outside the heart and lungs, pumping oxygenated blood from the venous system directly to the arterial system, has permitted all types of cardiac surgery, and also allowed surgical approaches to complex diseases such as correction of thoracic aortic aneurysms, resection of renal cell carcinoma, treatment of neurobasilar aneurysms, lung transplantation, and thrombo-endarterectomy of pulmonary arteries
   • IRI
   • Cardiology, Surgery
   • https://www.cts…eal-circulation

2. emergency cardiovascular care(English)

   • ILCOR
   • Emergency medicine, Cardiology
   • https://doi.org…tph.2019.01.003

3. excitation-contraction coupling(English)

   • CHF, LDA, RECC, SERCA
   • Physiology

4. endocervical curettage(English)

   • procedure using a curette to scrape the lining of the endocervical canal, and performed to detect the presence of cancer cells in the cervix
   • CIN
   • Gynecology, Oncology
   • https://pubmed.…h.gov/26124376/

5. eulerian circumferential strain(English)

   • calculated from a series of LV short-axis whiteblood cine stacks and a midcavity short-axis grid-tagged image
   • EDV, GLS
   • Cardiology, Medical imaging
   • https://doi.org…NAHA.117.027930

6. enhanced corneal compensation(English)

   • software that substantially improves polarimetric image analysis on eyes showing atypical polarization pattern
   • ARP, NFI, SLP, TSS, VCC
   • Ophthalmology

7. endoscopic chemical cauterization(English)

   • refers to branchial cleft sinus tracts
   • ENT, Therapeutic approaches
   • https://doi10.1…hotol.130.4.465

8. extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma(English)

   • one of the most rapidly increasing malignancies in China during recent decades. The relationship between tobacco exposure and ECC epidemics is unclear
   • BilIN, H-ICC, ICC, P-ICC
   • Liver disease, Oncology
   • https://doi.org…/s-0031-1272839
   • https://doi.org…2885-019-5484-9

9. eccentric exercise(English)

   • BFR, CIR, HI, LI, RPE, RPP
   • Exercise & Training
   • https://doi.org….1111/cpf.12439

10. extracoronary calcification(English)

    • refers to calcification scoring in the mitral apparatus, aortic root, aortic valve, and thoracic aorta
    • CAC
    • Atherosclerosis /atherogenic, Calcium, Vascular disease
    • https://doi.org…cmg.2017.05.007

11. early childhood caries(English)

    • a growing public health concern worldwide
    • CRA, RBCM
    • Dentistry, Pediatrics, Public Health, Nutrition
    • https://doi.org…903-024-04442-z
    • https://doi.org…3390/nu16091355