| Winternitz, Wilhelm | <person> Austrian physician, 1835-1917. See: Winternitz' sound. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Wintersteiner compound F | Derived from cortisol and with similar physiological actions. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Wintersteiner rosettes | Rosette's found only in retinal embryonic tumours, formed by a group of columnar cells with a peripheral basement membrane arranged in a radial manner around a central cavity, the spokes corresponding to the photoreceptors. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wintersteiner, Hugo | <person> Austrian ophthalmologist, 1865-1918. See: Wintersteiner rosettes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| winterweed | <botany> A kind of speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) which spreads chiefly in winter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wintry | Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery. "Touch our chilled hearts with vernal smile, Our wintry course do thou beguile." (Keble) Origin: AS. Wintrig. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| winze | <chemical> A small shaft sunk from one level to another, as for the purpose of ventilation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wipe | <zoology> The lapwing. Origin: Cf. Sw. Vipa, Dan. Vibe, the lapwing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wire | 1. To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors. 2. To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads. 3. To snare by means of a wire or wires. 4. To send (a message) by telegraph. Origin: Wired; Wiring. 1. To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream. 2. To send a telegraphic message. 1. A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel. Wire is made of any desired form, as round, square, triangular, etc, by giving this shape to the hole in the drawplate, or between the rollers. 2. A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire. Wire bed, Wire mattress, an elastic bed bottom or mattress made of wires interwoven or looped together in various ways. Wire bridge, a bridge suspended from wires, or cables made of wire. Wire cartridge, a shot cartridge having the shot inclosed in a wire cage. Wire cloth, a coarse cloth made of woven metallic wire, used for strainers, and for various other purposes. Wire edge, the thin, wirelike thread of metal sometimes formed on the edge of a tool by the stone in sharpening it. Wire fence, a fence consisting of posts with strained horizontal wires, wire netting, or other wirework, between. Wire gauge or gage. A gauge for measuring the diameter of wire, thickness of sheet metal, etc, often consisting of a metal plate with a series of notches of various widths in its edge. A standard series of sizes arbitrarily indicated, as by numbers, to which the diameter of wire or the thickness of sheet metal in usually made, and which is used in describing the size or thickness. There are many different standards for wire gauges, as in different countries, or for different kinds of metal, the Birmingham wire gauges and the American wire gauge being often used and designated by the abbreviations B. W.G. And A. W.G. Respectively. Wire gauze, a texture of finely interwoven wire, resembling gauze. <botany> Wire grass, a wireworm. Wire iron, wire rods of iron. Wire lathing, wire cloth or wire netting applied in the place of wooden lathing for holding plastering. Wire mattress. See Wire bed, above. Wire micrometer, a micrometer having spider lines, or fine wires, across the field of the instrument. Wire nail, a nail formed of a piece of wire which is headed and pointed. Wire netting, a texture of woven wire coarser than ordinary wire gauze. Wire rod, a metal rod from which wire is formed by drawing. Wire rope, a rope formed wholly, or in great part, of wires. Origin: OE. Wir, AS. Wir; akin to Icel. Virr, Dan. Vire, LG. Wir, wire; cf. OHG. Wiara fine gold; perhaps akin to E. Withy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wire arch | A wire conforming to the dental arch; used to restore the normal curve to the denture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wire splint | A device to stabilise teeth loosened by accident or by a periodontal condition in the maxilla or mandible; a device to reduce and stabilise maxillary or mandibular fractures by applying it to both jaws and connecting it by intermaxillary wires or rubber bands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wire-heel | <veterinary> A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wire-loop lesion | Thickening of the basement membrane, with fibrinoid staining, of scattered peripheral capillaries in renal glomeruli; characteristic of renal involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus; the appearance of an affected capillary wall resembles a loop used in microbiology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wire-tailed | <zoology> Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wiredraw | 1. To form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel. 2. Hence, to draw by art or violence. "My sense has been wiredrawn into blasphemy." (Dryden) 3. Hence, also, to draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument. "Such twisting, such wiredrawing, was never seen in a court of justice." (Macaulay) 4. <engineering> To pass, or to draw off, (as steam) through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction. Origin: Wiredrew; Wiredrawn; Wiredrawing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| William Henry |
(1879-1963) English reformer. Drew up blueprint for British welfare state, incl social insurance programme. Born in Bengal, taught law at Oxford and entered the civil service in the Board of Trade. Became active in the Liberal Party and published a report on unemployment in 1909. Became director of the London School of Economics (1919-37). Wrote Prices and Wages in England from the Twelfth to he Nineteenth Century in 1939. ...
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| will |
A legal document created by an individual that names an executor (the person who will managed the estate) and beneficiaries (persons who will receive the estate at the time of death).
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| witch hazel |
an astringent derived from the twigs of the Hamamelis virginiana plant.
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| window |
A window on a baby carriage is located in the canopy. Windows are usually made out of nylon mesh or plastic, and serves double duty as a place for a baby to view the world and as protection from the elements, or other hazards such as insects.
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| wild type |
The term used to indicate the normal allele (often symbolized as +) or the normal phenotype.
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| WI | West Indian tree |
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| WI | large evergreen shrub or small tree having white aromatic bark and leathery leaves and small purple to red flowers in terminal cymes |
| WI | Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena |
| WI | herb of tropical America having vanilla-scented flowers |
| WI | coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers |
| WI | shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico |
| WI | wild crab apple native to Europe |
| WI | evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries |
| WI | short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers |
| WI | any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves |
| WI | an undomesticated duck (especially a mallard) |
| WI | found wild in Palestine |