epi
- n a self-report personality inventory based on Hans Eysenck's factor analysis of personality which assumes three basic factors (the two most important being extraversion to introversion and neuroticism)
epicalyx
- n a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus
epicanthic fold
- n a vertical fold of skin over the nasal canthus; normal for Mongolian peoples; sometimes occurs in Down's syndrome
epicanthus
- n a vertical fold of skin over the nasal canthus; normal for Mongolian peoples; sometimes occurs in Down's syndrome
epicardia
- n the short part of the esophagus extending downward from the diaphragm to the stomach
- n the innermost of the two layers of the pericardium