Medical terms beginning with E

An enchondroma is a benign cartilage growth within bone, most often found in the small bones of the hand and often discovered incidentally.

Endocarditis is inflammation of the heart's inner lining and valves, most often from bacterial infection reaching the bloodstream and heart tissue.

A procedure in which the mucous membrane of the cervical canal is scraped using a spoon-shaped instrument called a curette.

Signals released straight into the bloodstream reach every tissue, so a gland the size of a pea can change what the whole body does.

Cancer that occurs in endocrine tissue, the tissue in the body that secretes hormones.

A pancreatic cell that produces hormones (e.g., insulin and glucagon) that are secreted into the bloodstream.

Ductless glands drop their messengers straight into the blood, so a signal made in one place acts on organs far away.

A tumor that is found in endocrine tissue but does not make extra hormones.

Hormones travel everywhere, so this specialty is defined by the messenger rather than by a single organ or region of the body.

Produced inside an organism or cell.

Having to do with the endometrium (the layer of tissue that lines the uterus).

A procedure in which a sample of tissue is taken from the endometrium (inner lining of the uterus) for examination under a microscope.

Endometrial cancer arises in the lining of the uterus and typically announces itself through abnormal vaginal bleeding, especially bleeding after menopause.

Abnormal cell growth in the endometrium (the lining of the uterus).

An abnormal overgrowth of the endometrium (the layer of cells that lines the uterus).

A benign condition in which tissue that looks like endometrial tissue grows in abnormal places in the abdomen.

The endometrium is the inner lining of the uterus that thickens and sheds each menstrual cycle and supports a pregnancy if one occurs.

A procedure in which a probe that sends out high-energy sound waves is inserted into the rectum.

Endorphins are natural opioid peptides the body releases to reduce pain signaling and contribute to a sense of well-being.

A camera on the end of a steerable tube, and increasingly the instrument that performs the operation rather than merely finding it.