| warts | Benign epidermal proliferations or tumours; some are viral in origin. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| warts, genital | Warts confined primarily to the moist skin of the genitals due to viruses belonging to the family of human papilloma viruses (hpvs) transmitted through sexual contact. most infected people have no symptoms but these viruses increase a woman's risk for cancer of the cervix. The virus can also be transmitted from mother to baby during childbirth. HPV infection is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the united states. It is also the leading cause of abnormal pap smears and pre-cancerous changes of the cervix in women. There is no cure for genital warts virus infection. Once contracted, the virus can stay with a person for life. (12 Dec 1998) |
| wartweed | <botany> Same as Wartwort. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wartwort | <botany> A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| warty | 1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf. 2. Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence. <zoology> Warty egg, a marine univalve shell (Ovulum verrucosum), having the surface covered with wartlike elevations. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| warty horn | A protruding keratotic growth of the skin; the base may show changes of actinic keratosis or carcinoma. Synonym: cornu cutaneum, warty horn. (05 Mar 2000) |
| warwickite | <chemical> A dark brown or black mineral, occurring in prismatic crystals imbedded in limestone near Warwick, new York. It consists of the borate and titanate of magnesia and iron. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wase | A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head. Origin: Cf. Sw. Vase a sheaf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wash | 1. To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc, or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees. "When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . He took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person." (Matt. Xxvii. 24) 2. To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten; hence, to overflow or dash against; as, waves wash the shore. "Fresh blown roses washed with dew." (Milton) "[The landscape] washed with a cold, gray mist." (Longfellow) 3. To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment. 4. To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands. "Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins." (Acts xxii. 16) "The tide will wash you off." (Shak) 5. To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly. 6. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as, steel washed with silver. To wash gold, etc, to treat earth or gravel, or crushed ore, with water, in order to separate the gold or other metal, or metallic ore, through their superior gravity. To wash the hands of. See Hand. Origin: OE. Waschen, AS. Wascan; akin to D. Wasschen, G. Waschen, OHG. Wascan, Icel. & Sw. Vaska, Dan. Vaske, and perhaps to E. Water. 1. The act of washing; an ablution; a cleansing, wetting, or dashing with water; hence, a quantity, as of clothes, washed at once. 2. A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire. "The Wash of Edmonton so gay." "These Lincoln washes have devoured them." (Shak) 3. Substances collected and deposited by the action of water; as, the wash of a sewer, of a river, etc. "The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled." (Mortimer) 4. Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc, from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs. 5. The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted. A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation. 6. That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc, upon the surface. Specifically: A liquid cosmetic for the complexion. A liquid dentifrice. A liquid preparation for the hair; as, a hair wash. A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application; a lotion. A thin coat of colour, especially. Water colour. A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation. 7. The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water. The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc. 8. The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave; also, the sound of it. 9. Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. Wash ball, a ball of soap to be used in washing the hands or face. <chemistry> Wash barrel A bottle partially filled with some liquid through which gases are passed for the purpose of purifying them, especially by removing soluble constituents. A washing bottle. See Washing. Wash gilding. See Water gilding. Wash leather, split sheepskin dressed with oil, in imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting, cleaning glass or plate, etc.; also, alumed, or buff, leather for soldiers' belts. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wash-bottle | A bottle with a tube passing to the bottom, through which gases are forced into water to purify them, a stoppered bottle with two tubes, one ending above and the other below a fluid, so that air blowing through the short tube forces liquid in a small stream from the free end of the long one; used for washing chemical apparatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washdish | 1. A washbowl. 2. <zoology> Same as Washerwoman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| washed | <ornithology, zoology> Appearing as if overlaid with a thin layer of different colour; said of the colours of certain birds and insects. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| washed field technique | The cutting of cavity preparations in teeth utilizing a constant irrigant which is immediately removed from the mouth by means of a vacuum device. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washed sulfur | Sublimed sulfur macerated in diluted ammonia water to remove the free acid; same therapeutic uses as sublimed sulfur. (05 Mar 2000) |
| washer | 1. One who, or that which, washes. 2. A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc. 3. A fitting, usually having a plug, applied to a cistern, tub, sink, or the like, and forming the outlet opening. 4. <zoology> The common raccoon. 5. <zoology> Same as Washerwoman. Origin: AS. Waescere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |