| Weir's operation | An obsolete eponym for appendicostomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Weir, Robert | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1838-1927. See: Weir's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| weird | 1. Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny. 2. Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc. "Myself too had weird seizures." (Tennyson) "Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation." (Longfellow) Weird sisters, the Fates. Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth. "The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land." (Shak) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Weisbach's angle | A craniometric angle formed by the junction, at the alveolar point, of lines passing from the basion and from the middle of the frontonasal suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weisbach, Albin | <person> Austrian anthropologist, 1837-1914. See: Weisbach's angle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weismann germ plasm theory | <genetics> The theory that organisms maintain genetic continuity from organism to offspring through the germ line cells (germ plasm) and that the other (somatic) cells play no part in the transmission of heritable factors. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Weismann, August Friedrich Leopold | <person> German biologist, 1834-1914. See: weismannism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| weismannism | Theory of the noninheritance of acquired characteristics. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weiss' sign | <clinical sign> In tetany, tapping the muscles of the face causes them to go into spasm. Chvostek's sign is positive in cases of severe hypocalcaemia. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Weiss, Nathan | <person> Austrian physician, 1851-1883. See: Weiss' sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weiss, Soma | <person> U.S. Physician, 1898-1942. See: Charcot-Weiss-Baker syndrome, Mallory-Weiss lesion, Mallory-Weiss syndrome, Mallory-Weiss tear. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weitbrecht's cartilage | The articular disk of fibrocartilage usually found between the acromial end of the clavicle and the medial border of the acromion. Synonym: discus articularis acromioclavicularis, acromioclavicular disk, Weitbrecht's cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weitbrecht's cord | A slender band extending from the lateral part of the coronoid process of the ulna distad and laterad to the radius immediately distal to the bicipital tuberosity. Synonym: chorda obliqua, oblique cord, round ligament of elbow joint, Weitbrecht's cord, Weitbrecht's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weitbrecht's fibres | One of several longitudinal folds of the articular capsule of the hip joint reflected onto the femoral neck deep to which the retinacular branches of the medial femoral circumflex artery pass to reach the femoral head. Synonym: retinaculum capsulae articularis coxae, Weitbrecht's fibres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weitbrecht's foramen | An opening in the articular capsule of the shoulder joint, communicating with the subtendinous bursa of the subscapularis muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |