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Elastoses
- noun - breakdown of elastic tissue (as the loss of elasticity in the skin of elderly people that results from degeneration of connective tissue)
Elastosis
- noun - breakdown of elastic tissue (as the loss of elasticity in the skin of elderly people that results from degeneration of connective tissue)
Elaterids
- noun - any of various widely distributed beetles
Elaterite
- - A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.
Elaterium
- - A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).
Emacerate
- - To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate.
Emaciated
- verb - cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
- grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"
- very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
Emaciates
- verb - cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him"
- grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"
Emaculate
- - To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
Emanating
- verb - give out (breath or an odor); "The chimney exhales a thick smoke"
- proceed or issue forth, as from a source; "Water emanates from this hole in the ground"