essential

Examples

• All

• For example, Langenheim helps clarify the misleading trade term "essential oil," which refers to volatile monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes.

  Academic text (2003)

• Practicum courses provide essential opportunities to design, implement, and evaluate real-world technology-enhanced lessons.

  Academic text (2015)

• The vast majority of care homes provide an essential, good quality service.

  Academic text (2011)

• The involvement of families in these and other activities is essential to ensure effective transition planning from an early age.

  Academic text (2015)

• Some plants and animals provide humans with essential medicines and other diverse, useful products.

  Academic text (1997)

• So the essential process of life is photosynthesis.

• Again, referral to specialist care is essential for women with diabetes who are planning a pregnancy.

  Academic text (2015)

• Given such realities, it is essential that lesbian and bisexual females have greater exposure to accurate prevention-based information.

  Academic text (2015)

• The gardener explained how to extract essential oils from various herbs and flowers.

• Adding a few drops of essential oil can enhance the fragrance of homemade candles.

Compounds

E

essential oil

14 3.7

A strong-smelling oil from a plant used in perfumes and to add scent to a room

E

essential service

• Formal

4 3.0

A service that people need for health, safety and daily care, like healthcare or water

E

essential ingredient

4 3.0

A thing you need for a recipe, process, or result to work

E

essential amino acid

• Specialized

1 3.6

An amino acid the body cannot make and must get from food

E

essential tremor

• Specialized

1 6.3

A health condition that makes the hands and head shake regularly

E

essential condition

1 3.5

Something that must be true or happen first for another thing to happen

E

essential hypertension

• Specialized

4.2

High blood pressure that lasts a long time and has no known cause

E

essential thrombocytopenia

• Specialized

9.0

A blood disorder with very few platelets, the tiny blood parts that stop bleeding, not caused by another disease

How Concentrated

essential

• Specialized

21 4.4

pure

390 1.0

potent

119 5.5

concentrated

• Specialized

4.4

mild

107 1.0

weak

22 1.3

dilute

1 4.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology