| WI-38 cells | The first normal human cells, derived from foetal lung tissue, continuously cultivated. Origin: Wistar Institute (05 Mar 2000) |
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| wichitas | <ethnology> A tribe of Indians native of the region between the Arkansas and Red rivers. They are related to the Pawnees. See Pawnees. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wicked | 1. Evil in principle or practice; deviating from morality; contrary to the moral or divine law; addicted to vice or sin; sinful; immoral; profligate; said of persons and things; as, a wicked king; a wicked woman; a wicked deed; wicked designs. "Hence, then, and evil go with thee along, Thy offspring, to the place of evil, hell, Thou and thy wicked crew!" (Milton) "Never, never, wicked man was wise." (Pope) 2. Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous. "Wicked dew." "This were a wicked way, but whoso had a guide." (P. Plowman) 3. Ludicrously or sportively mischievous; disposed to mischief; roguish. "Pen looked uncommonly wicked." (Thackeray) Synonym: Iniquitous, sinful, criminal, guilty, immoral, unjust, unrighteous, unholy, irreligious, ungodly, profane, vicious, pernicious, atrocious, nefarious, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, abandoned. See Iniquitous. Origin: OE. Wicked, fr. Wicke wicked; probably originally the same word as wicche wizard, witch. See Witch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wicken tree | Same as Quicken tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wicket | 1. A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman. "Heaven's wicket." "And so went to the high street, . . . And came to the great tower, but the gate and wicket was fast closed." (Ld. Berners) "The wicket, often opened, knew the key." (Dryden) 2. A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is regulated. 3. A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top. The ground on which the wickets are set. 4. A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, used by lumbermen, etc. 5. <chemical> The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working. Wicket door, Wicket gate, a small door or gate; a wicket. See def. 1, above. Wicket keeper, the player who stands behind the wicket to catch the balls and endeavor to put the batsman out. Origin: OE. Wiket, OF. Wiket, guichet, F. Quichet; probably of Scand. Origin; cf. Icel. Vk a small creek, inlet, bay, vik a corner. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wickham's striae | Fine whitish lines, having a network arrangement, on the surface of lichen planus papules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wickham, Louis-Frederic | <person> French dermatologist, 1861-1913. See: Wickham's striae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wicopy | <botany> See Leatherwood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| widal test | <investigation> A test involving agglutination of typhoid bacilli when they are mixed with serum containing typhoid antibodies from an individual having typhoid fever, used to detect the presence of Salmonella typhi and s. Paratyphi. Pronounced: vidal (13 Nov 1997) |
| Widal's reaction | Agglutination reaction as applied to the diagnosis of typhoid. Synonym: Gruber's reaction, Gruber-Widal reaction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Widal's syndrome | <clinical sign> An obsolete term for acquired haemolytic icterus. Synonym: Widal's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Widal, Georges | <person> French physician, 1862-1929. See: Widal's reaction, Widal's syndrome, Gruber-Widal reaction, Hayem-Widal syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wide field ocular | An ocular that gives a larger than usual field of view and a high eyepoint. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wide plane | The plane extending from the middle of the posterior surface of the pubic symphysis to the junction of the second and third sacral vertebrae, and laterally passing through the ischial bones over the middle of the acetabulum. Synonym: second parallel pelvic plane, wide plane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wide spectrum | See: spectrum. (05 Mar 2000) |