| wamble-cropped | Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wamp | <zoology> The common American eider. Origin: From the North American Indian name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wampee | <botany> A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor. The pickerel weed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wampum | Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc, as an ornament. "Round his waist his belt of wampum." (Longfellow) "Girded with his wampum braid." (Whittier) These beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other black or dark purple. The term wampum is properly applied only to the white; the dark purple ones are called suckanhock. See Seawan. "It [wampum] consisted of cylindrical pieces of the shells of testaceous fishes, a quarter of an inch long, and in diameter less than a pipestem, drilled . . . So as to be strung upon a thread. The beads of a white colour, rated at half the value of the black or violet, passed each as the equivalent of a farthing in transactions between the natives and the planters." Origin: North American Indian wampum, wompam, from the Mass. Wompi, Del. Wape, white. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| 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 kidney | The abnormally mobile kidney in nephroptosia. Synonym: movable kidney, wandering kidney. (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) |