| Wangensteen drainage | Continuous drainage by suction through an indwelling gastric or duodenal tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Wangensteen suction | A modified siphon that maintains constant negative pressure, used with a duodenal tube for the relief of gastric and intestinal distention. Synonym: Wangensteen tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wangensteen tube | A modified siphon that maintains constant negative pressure, used with a duodenal tube for the relief of gastric and intestinal distention. Synonym: Wangensteen tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wangensteen, Owen | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1898-1981. See: Wangensteen drainage, Wangensteen suction, Wangensteen tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wanghee | <botany> The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks. Alternative forms: whanghee. Origin: Chin. Wang yellow + he a root. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wangiella | A dematiaceous genus of fungi characterised by phialides without collarettes, a black yeastlike colony with yeast forms, and later hyphae; the fungi grow well at 40캜. Wangiella dermatitidis is an etilogical agent of phaeohyphomycosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wanhorn | <botany> An East Indian plant (Kaempferia Galanga) of the Ginger family. See Galanga. Origin: Corruption fr. Siamese wanhom. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wanion | A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune. Origin: Probably for OE. Waniand waning, p. Pr. Of wanien; hence, used of the waning of the moon, supposed to be an unlucky time. See Wane. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| want | 1. To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four. "The disposition, the manners, and the thoughts are all before it; where any of those are wanting or imperfect, so much wants or is imperfect in the imitation of human life." (Dryden) 2. To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack. "You have a gift, sir (thank your education), Will never let you want." (B. Jonson) "For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind." (Pope) Want was formerly used impersonally with an indirect object. "Him wanted audience." Origin: Icel. Vanta to be wanting. See Want to lack. 1. The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing. "And me, his parent, would full soon devour For want of other prey." (Milton) "From having wishes in consequence of our wants, we often feel wants in consequence of our wishes." (Rambler) "Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and more saucy." (Franklin) 2. Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need. "Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want." (Swift) 3. That which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure. "Habitual superfluities become actual wants." (Paley) 4. <chemical> A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. Synonym: Indigence, deficiency, defect, destitution, lack, failure, dearth, scarceness. Origin: Originally an adj, from Icel. Vant, neuter of vanr lacking, deficient. See Wane. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wantless | Having no want; abundant; fruitful. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wanton | 1. A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; used rarely as a term of endearment. "I am afeard you make a wanton of me." (Shak) "Peace, my wantons; he will do More than you can aim unto." (B. Jonson) 2. One brought up without restraint; a pampered pet. "Anything, sir, That's dry and wholesome; I am no bred wanton." (Beau. & Fl) 3. A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman. 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness." . "A wild and wanton herd." . "A wanton and a merry [friar]" (Chaucer) "[She] her unadorned golden tresses wore Disheveled, but in wanton ringlets waved." (Milton) "How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise!" (Addison) 2. Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute. "Men grown wanton by prosperity." 3. Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous. "Not with wanton looking of folly." (Chaucer) "[Thou art] froward by nature, enemy to peace, Lascivious, wanton." (Shak) 4. Reckless; heedless; as, wanton mischief. Origin: OE. Wantoun, contr. From wantowen; pref. Wan- wanting (see Wane,), hence expressing negation + towen, p. P, AS. Togen, p. P. Of teon to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, properly, ill bred. See Tug. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wandering atrial p. |
a condition in which the site of origin of the impulses controlling the heart rate shifts from one point to another within the atria, including the sinus node, changing with almost every beat. P waves and PR intervals vary, and the rate of impulse formation is somewhat irregular. It occurs when the rate of sinus impulses falls below a critical level or fails.
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| wandering c. |
ameboid c.
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| wandering c., primitive |
a small mononuclear cell of the embryo that arises from the mesoderm and subsequently by differentiation gives rise to wandering cells of the body.
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| wandering g. |
abnormal mobility of the fundus and body of the gallbladder.
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| wandering h. |
free macrophage.
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| WAN | to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course |
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| WAN | go via an indirect route or at no set pace |
| WAN | be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage |
| WAN | a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database |
| WAN | someone who leads a wandering unsettled life |
| WAN | travelling about without any clear destination |
| WAN | of a path e.g. |
| WAN | having no fixed course |
| WAN | (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently |
| WAN | very large albatross |
| WAN | a legendary Jew condemned to roam the world for mocking Jesus at the Crucifixion |
| WAN | a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera |