| wissler's syndrome | <syndrome> A rheumatic syndrome of possibly allergic origin, usually affecting children and adolescents, and characterised by high fever, exanthema, arthralgia, leukocytosis, and increased sedimentation rate. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Wissler, Hans | <person> Swiss paediatrician, *1906. See: Wissler's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wistar, Caspar | <person> U.S. Biologist, 1760-1818, after whom the Wistar Institute is named. See: Wistar rats. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wistaria | <botany> A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers. The species commonest in cultivation is the Wistaria Sinensis from Eastern Asia. W. Fruticosa grows wild in the southern parts of the United States. Origin: So named after Caspar Wistar, an American anatomist. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wistit | <zoology> A small South American monkey; a marmoset. Alternative forms: wistiti, and ouistiti. Origin: Prob. From native name: cf. F. Ouistiti. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wistonwish | <zoology> The prairie dog. Origin: Probably of American Indian origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wit | <psychology> The faculty of expressing the amusing, clever, or comical or the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. (12 Dec 1998) |
| witch | 1. One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, especially. With the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well. "There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch." (Wyclif (Acts viii. 9)) "He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch." (Shak) 2. An ugly old woman; a hag. 3. One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; said especially of a woman or child. 4. <geometry> A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera. 5. <zoology> The stormy petrel. Witch balls, a name applied to the interwoven rolling masses of the stems of herbs, which are driven by the winds over the steppes of Tartary. Cf. Tumbleweed. 6. <botany> Witches' besoms, vegetable sulphur. See Vegetable. Origin: OE. Wicche, AS. Wicce, fem, wicca, masc.; perhaps the same word as AS. Witiga, witga, a soothsayer (cf. Wiseacre); cf. Fries. Wikke, a witch, LG. Wikken to predict, Icel. Vitki a wizard, vitka to bewitch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| witch hazel | <botany> A genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. A kind of medlar or service tree; at the same time + an apple, any tree fruit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| witch's milk | A secretion of colostrum-like milk sometimes occurring in the glands of newborn infants of either sex 3 to 4 days after birth and lasting a week or two; due to endocrine stimulation from the mother before birth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| witch-elm | <botany> See Wych-elm. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| witch-hazel | <botany> The wych-elm. An American shrub or small tree (Hamamelis Virginica), which blossoms late in autumn. See: Wych-elm, and Hazel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| witch-tree | <botany> The witch-hazel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| witchcraft | An act of employing sorcery (the use of power gained from the assistance or control of spirits), especially with malevolent intent, and the exercise of supernatural powers and alleged intercourse with the devil or a familiar. (12 Dec 1998) |
| witchery | 1. Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft. "Great Comus, Deep skilled in all his mother's witcheries." (Milton) "A woman infamous . . . For witcheries." (Sir W. Scott) 2. Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment. "He never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky." (Wordsworth) "The dear, dear witchery of song." (Bryant) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wiring |
A term applied to the electrical circuits of an aeroplane. Electrical apparatus on aircraft is now so complex that servicing is only possible by the use of intricate wiring diagrams and wires of diverse colours on different circuits.
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| wild type |
The allele, genotype, or phenotype that is most prevalent (if there is one) in wild populations; with reference to the wild-type allele, other alleles are often termed mutations.
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| wild type |
The wild type (wt) is a term referring to the natural genetic form of an organism. A wild type is distinguished from a mutant form (an organism with a genetic mutation). Usually, the distinction between wild type and mutant is based on a single mutation. It should be noted, that within a population of an organism, there is no such thing as a wild type. The term, however, is useful for geneticists because it allows a simple definition of a standard or control condition.
출처: www.whatislife.com/glossary.htm
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| witness |
an individual present at an event such as a marriage or the signing of a document who can vouch that the event took place.
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| withdrawal |
One of the oldest known methods of contraception in which the man removes his penis from the vagina before ejaculation. Also known as coitus interruptus.
출처: www.thehardnessfactor.com/exclusives/glossary.html
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| WI | eastern camas |
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| WI | sometimes placed in genus Scilla |
| WI | deciduous shrub with creamy white flower clusters |
| WI | any of several plants of the genus Baptisia |
| WI | coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers |
| WI | North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers |
| WI | European perennial |
| WI | North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties |
| WI | bedstraw with sweetish roots |
| WI | North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters |
| WI | evergreen with rounded leaves and very fragrant creamy-white flowers |
| WI | European perennial |