| 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) |