| WARDS | Welfare of Animals Used for Research in Drugs and Therapy |
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| CW | cardiac work; case work; cell wall; chemical warfare; chemical weapon; chest wall; children's ward; ... |
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| EW | emergency ward; estrogen withdrawal |
| ICW | intensive care ward; intracellular water |
| IW | inner wall; inpatient ward |
| PSW | primary surgical ward; positive sharp wave; psychiatric social worker |
| WAS | Ward Atmosphere Scale |
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| WT | Ward's triangle |
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| ward | 1. The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch. "Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward." (Spenser) 2. One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection. "For the best ward of mine honor." (Shak) "The assieged castle's ward Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain." (Spenser) "For want of other ward, He lifted up his hand, his front to guard." (Dryden) 3. The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody. "And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard." (Gen. Xl. 3) "I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward." (Shak) "It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords." (Spenser) 4. A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard. "Thou knowest my old ward; here I lay, and thus I bore my point." (Shak) 5. One who, or that which, is guarded. Specifically: A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery. "You know our father's ward, the fair Monimia." A division of a county. A division, district, or quarter of a town or city. "Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, Dealing an equal share to every ward." (Dryden) A division of a forest. A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward. 6. A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it. A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch. "The lock is made . . . More secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches." (Tomlinson) Ward penny, money paid to the sheriff or castellan for watching and warding a castle. Ward staff, a constable's or watchman's staff. Origin: AS. Weard, fem, guard, weard, asc, keeper, guard; akin to OS. Ward a watcher, warden, G. Wart, OHG. Wart, Icel. Vorr a warden, a watch, Goth. -wards in daorawards a doorkeeper, and E. Wary; cf. OF. Warde guard, from the German. See Ware, Wary, and cf. Guard, Wraith. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Ward's triangle | An area of diminished density in the trabecular pattern of the neck of the femur evident by X-ray as well as by direct inspection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ward, Frederick | <person> British osteologist, 1818-1877. See: Ward's triangle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ward, O | <person> 20th century paediatrician. See: Romano-Ward syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ward-Romano syndrome | <syndrome> A prolonged Q-T interval in the electrocardiogram in children subject to attacks of unconsciousness that result from ventricular arrhythmias including ventricular fibrillation; autosomal dominant inheritance. Compare: Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome. Synonym: Ward-Romano syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| warden | 1. A keeper; a guardian; a watchman. "He called to the warden on the . . . Battlements." (Sir. W. Scott) 2. An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison. 3. A head official; as, the warden of a college; specifically, a churchwarden. 4. [Properly, a keeping pear] A large, hard pear, chiefly used for baking and roasting. "I would have had him roasted like a warden." (Beau. & Fl) Warden pie, a pie made of warden pears. Origin: OE. Wardein, OF. Wardein, gardein, gardain, F. Gardien. See Guardian, and Ward guard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wardian | Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc, or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wardrop's disease | Acute onychia occurring spontaneously in debilitated patients, or in response to slight trauma. Synonym: Wardrop's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wardrop's method | Treatment of aneurysm by ligation of the artery at some distance beyond the sac, leaving one or more branches of the artery between the sac and the ligature. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wardrop, James | <person> British surgeon, 1782-1869. See: Wardrop's disease, Wardrop's method. (05 Mar 2000) |
| MacNeal, Ward | <person> U.S. Bacteriologist, 1881-1946. See: MacNeal's tetrachrome blood stain, Novy and MacNeal's blood agar. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Romano-Ward syndrome | <syndrome> A prolonged Q-T interval in the electrocardiogram in children subject to attacks of unconsciousness that result from ventricular arrhythmias including ventricular fibrillation; autosomal dominant inheritance. Compare: Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome. Synonym: Ward-Romano syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Halstead, Ward | <person> U.S. Psychologist, 1908-1968. See: Halstead-Reitan battery. (05 Mar 2000) |
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a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care; "they put her in a 4-bed ward" English economist and conservationist (1914-1981) English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920) United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913) cellblock: a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) guard: watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect; "guard my possessions while I'm away"
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A territorial division or means of defence. A protection.
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Courtyard or bailey.
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Hospital room designed and equipped to house more than four inpatients.
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means a subdivision for electoral purposes of the district of a territorial authority.
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| ward | a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) |
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| ward | block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care |
| ward | a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections |
| ward | a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another |
| ward | watch over or shield from danger or harm |
| ward | United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913) |
| ward | English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920) |
| ward | English economist and conservationist (1914-1981) |
| ward | avert, turn away, or repel |
| ward | prevent the occurrence of |
| ward | a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends |
| ward | the chief official in charge of a prison |
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