| wandering kidney | The abnormally mobile kidney in nephroptosia. Synonym: movable kidney, wandering kidney. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Marchand's wandering cell | A cell of the mononuclear phagocyte system. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| resting wandering cell | A relatively immotile macrophage found in connective tissue, lymph nodes, spleen, and bone marrow. Synonym: resting wandering cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wandering | <physiology> From Wander, Wandering albatross, an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood. <botany> Wandering Jew, any one of a tribe of spiders that wander about in search of their prey. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wandering abscess | An abscess that breaks down tissue barriers to enter adjacent areas. Synonym: gravitation abscess, hypostatic abscess, migrating abscess, wandering abscess. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wandering cell | A cell such as a leukocyte, having ameboid movements, with a power of locomotion. Synonym: wandering cell. Synonym: migratory cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wandering erysipelas | A widely spreading form involving the entire face or body surface. Synonym: ambulant erysipelas, wandering erysipelas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wandering goiter | A freely movable goiter that is sometimes above and sometimes below the sternal notch. Synonym: wandering goiter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wandering liver | A downward displacement of the liver. Synonym: wandering liver. Origin: hepato-+ G. Ptosis, a failing (05 Mar 2000) |
| wandering macrophage | <haematology> A macrophage that leaves the blood and migrates to infected tissue. (09 Oct 1997) |
| wandering organ | An organ with loose attachments, permitting its displacement. Synonym: floating organ, ptotic organ. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wandering pacemaker | A disturbance of the normal cardiac rhythm in which the site of the controlling pacemaker shifts from beat to beat, usually between the sinus and A-V nodes, often with gradual sequential changes in P waves between upright and inverted in a given ECG lead. Synonym: shifting pacemaker. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wandering pneumonia | A form of pneumonia in which successive areas of the lung are affected; may occur in bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Synonym: wandering pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute kidney failure | <nephrology> A sudden decline in renal function may be triggered by a number of acute disease processes. Examples include sepsis (infection), shock, trauma, kidney stones, kidney infection, drug toxicity (aspirin or lithium), poisons or toxins (drug abuse) or after injection with an iodinated contrast dye (adverse effect). Chronic renal failure represents a slow decline in kidney function over time. Chronic renal failure may be caused by a number of disorders which include long-standing hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure, lupus or sickle cell anaemia. Both forms of renal failure result in a life-threatening metabolic derangement. (27 Sep 1997) |
| acute kidney transplant rejection | <radiology> Findings on ultrasound: globular enlargment of the kidney, swelling and hypoechogenicity of the medullary pyramids, indistinct cortico-medullary junction, foci in the renal cortex (12 Dec 1998) |
| african green monkey kidney cell | <cell culture> Cells taken from the kidneys of the African green monkey Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus and used to grow certain viruses like poliovirus. (05 Feb 1998) |