| wright | One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; especially, a worker in wood; now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. "He was a well good wright, a carpenter." (Chaucer) Origin: OE. Wrighte, writhe, AS. Wyrtha, fr. Wyrcean to work. See Work. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Wright respirometer | An inferential meter to measure tidal and minute volume from the number of revolutions of a vane rotated by the gas stream as the latter passes through 10 tangential slots in a cylindrical stator ring to turn a flat two-bladed rotor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wright's inbreeding coefficient | <genetics> The percentage of homozygous alleles an individual has. The probability that any two genes in an individual have the same ancestral origin (which is shared by both parents). (09 Oct 1997) |
| Wright's stain | <technique> A staining mixture of eosinates of polychromed methylene blue used in staining of blood smears. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wright's syndrome | <syndrome> Pain running down the arm, numbness, paresthesias, and erythema, with weakness of the hands; due to abduction of the arm for a prolonged period (e.g., during sleep or necessitated by occupation) which stretches the axillary vessels and the nerves of the brachial plexus. Synonym: subcoracoid-pectoralis minor tendon syndrome, Wright's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wright's version | A cephalic version employed in cases of shoulder presentation when the shoulders are pushed upward while the breech is moved toward the centre of the uterus by the other hand; the head is then guided into the pelvis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wright, Basil Martin | <person> 20th century British physician. See: Wright respirometer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wright, James Homer | U.S. Pathologist, 1871-1928. See: Wright's stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wright, Marmaduke Burr | <person> U.S. Obstetrician, 1803-1879. See: Wright's version. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wrightine | <chemistry> A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrhoea. Synonym: conessine, and neriine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Homer-Wright rosettes | Pseudorosettes formed by the arrangement of tumour cells around an area of fibrillarity, evidence of neuroblastic differentiation in a medulloblastoma or primitive neuroectodermal tumour. (05 Mar 2000) |
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