| Ward, Frederick | <person> British osteologist, 1818-1877. See: Ward's triangle. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |
| ware | <botany> Seaweed. <zoology> Ware goose, the brant; so called because it feeds on ware, or seaweed. Origin: AS. War. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| warega fly | (Zool) A Brazilian fly whose larvae live in the skin of man and animals, producing painful sores. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| warehouseman | 1. One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store. 2. One who keeps a wholesale shop or store for Manchester or woolen goods. <medicine> Warehouseman's itch, a form of eczema occurring on the back of the hands of warehousemen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| warehouseman's itch | Eczema of the hands from handling irritating substances. (05 Mar 2000) |
| warence | <botany> Madder. Origin: OF. Warance. F. Garance, LL. Warentia, garantia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| warfarin | <drug> Synthetic inhibitor of prothrombin activation and therefore an inhibitor of blood clotting. Also used as a rat poison. (18 Nov 1997) |
| warfarin sodium | [[3-(alpha-Acetonylbenzyl)-2-oxo-2H-1-benzopyran-4-yl]oxy]sodium;an anticoagulant with the same actions as dicumarol; also used as a rodenticide; also available as the potassium salt, with the same actions and uses. Origin: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation + coumarin (05 Mar 2000) |
| water table |
The water table is the upper limit of abundant groundwater. In the vadose zone, above the water table, the interstices between particles of earth are filled by air, or by air and water (with the exception of the capillary fringe). Below it, every available space is saturated with water. A large amount of water within a body of sand or rock below the water table is called an aquifer. ...
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| walker |
A walker is a walking tool for old and slightly disabled people. This consists of a frame that is about waist high. It is slightly wider than the person and it is about twelve inches deep. The person walks with it in front of them; with the frame surrounding their front and sides. The front two legs of the walker may have wheels; it may not; depending on the strength and abilities of the person using it. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_(tool)
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| watt |
Watt is a lunar crater that is located in the southeastern part of the Moon. The northwestern third of the crater rim has been completely overlaid by the same-sized Steinheil crater, leaving much of the interior floor covered with the outer rampart of ejecta from the later formation. The remainder of the rim of Watt crater is somewhat jagged in appearance, with an inward bulge along the southeast rim and a pair of small outward projections to the northeast. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt_(crater)
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| wall |
The unbroken portion of the wave.
출처: www.geocities.com/Pipeline/Halfpipe/8119/glossary....
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| wart |
A raised growth on the surface of the skin or other organ.
출처: www.stjude.org/glossary
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| WA | a family of North American Indian languages of British Columbia and Washington |
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| WA | a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language |
| WA | a family of North American Indian languages of British Columbia and Washington |
| WA | a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial |
| WA | the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward |
| WA | the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) |
| WA | stop sleeping |
| WA | cause to become awake or conscious |
| WA | be awake, be alert, be there |
| WA | make aware of |
| WA | arouse or excite feelings and passions |
| WA | an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii |