| wink reflex | General term for reflex closure of eyelids caused by any stimulus. Synonym: eye-closure reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| winking spasm | Involuntary spasmodic winking. Synonym: spasmus nictitans, winking spasm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| winkle | <zoology> Any periwinkle. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. Canaliculata, and F. Carica). These are large mollusks which often destroy large numbers of oysters by drilling their shells and sucking their blood. Sting winkle, a European spinose marine shell (Murex erinaceus). Origin: AS. Wincle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Winkler's disease | A benign, chronic, small, painful nodule (or nodules) on the helix of the ear in elderly white males, which may occasionally become ulcerated. Synonym: Winkler's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Winkler, Max | <person> Swiss physician, 1875-1952. See: Winkler's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| winnebagoes | <ethnology> A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| winnew | 1. To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. "Ho winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing floor." (Ruth. Iii. 2) 2. To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as had from good. "Winnow well this thought, and you shall find This light as chaff that flies before the wind." (Dryden) 3. To beat with wings, or as with wings. "Now on the polar winds; then with quick fan Winnows the buxom air." (Milton) Origin: OE. Windewen, winewen, AS. Windwian; akin to Goth. Winpjan (in comp), winpi-skauro a fan, L. Ventilare to fan, to winnow; cf. L. Wannus a fan for winnowing, G. Wanne, OHG. Wanna. See Wind moving air, and cf. Fan, Ventilate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| winning | 1. The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition. 2. The money, etc, gained by success in competition or contest, especially, in gambling; usually in the plural. "Ye seek land and sea for your winnings." (Chaucer) 3. <chemical> A new opening. The portion of a coal field out for working. <chemical> Winning headway, an excavation for exploration, in post-and-stall working. Winning post, the post, or goal, at the end of a race. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| winninish | <zoology> The land-locked variety of the common salmon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| winogradsky column | <apparatus> A glass column with an anaerobic lower zone and an aerobic upper zone, which allows growth of microorganisms under conditions similar to those found in a nutrient-rich lake. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Winslow's foramen | The passage, below and behind the portal hepatis, connecting the two sacs of the peritoneum; it is bounded anteriorly by the hepatoduodenal ligament and posteriorly by a peritoneal fold over the inferior vena cava. Synonym: foramen omentale, foramen epiploicum, aditus ad saccum peritonei minorem, Duverney's foramen, Winslow's foramen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Winslow's ligament | <anatomy> The cordlike ligament that passes from the lateral epicondyle of the femur to the head of the fibula. Synonym: ligamentum collaterale fibulare, lateral ligament of knee, Winslow's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Winslow's pancreas | A portion of the head of the pancreas that hooks around posterior to the superior mesenteric vessels, sometimes into the "nutcracker" formed by the superior mesenteric artery and abdominal aorta. Synonym: processus uncinatus pancreatis, lesser pancreas, pancreas minus, small pancreas, uncinate pancreas, unciform pancreas, Willis' pancreas, Winslow's pancreas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Winslow's stars | Capillary whorls in the lamina choroidocapillaris from which arise the venae vorticosae. Synonym: stellulae vasculosae, Winslow's stars. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Winslow, Jacob | <person> Danish anatomist, physicist, and surgeon in Paris, 1669-1760. See: Winslow's foramen, Winslow's ligament, Winslow's pancreas, Winslow's stars, stellulae winslowii. (05 Mar 2000) |