| Wright respirometer | An inferential meter to measure tidal and minute volume from the number of revolutions of a vane rotated by the gas stream as the latter passes through 10 tangential slots in a cylindrical stator ring to turn a flat two-bladed rotor. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Wright's inbreeding coefficient | <genetics> The percentage of homozygous alleles an individual has. The probability that any two genes in an individual have the same ancestral origin (which is shared by both parents). (09 Oct 1997) |
| Wright's stain | <technique> A staining mixture of eosinates of polychromed methylene blue used in staining of blood smears. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wright's syndrome | <syndrome> Pain running down the arm, numbness, paresthesias, and erythema, with weakness of the hands; due to abduction of the arm for a prolonged period (e.g., during sleep or necessitated by occupation) which stretches the axillary vessels and the nerves of the brachial plexus. Synonym: subcoracoid-pectoralis minor tendon syndrome, Wright's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wright's version | A cephalic version employed in cases of shoulder presentation when the shoulders are pushed upward while the breech is moved toward the centre of the uterus by the other hand; the head is then guided into the pelvis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wright, Basil Martin | <person> 20th century British physician. See: Wright respirometer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wright, James Homer | U.S. Pathologist, 1871-1928. See: Wright's stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wright, Marmaduke Burr | <person> U.S. Obstetrician, 1803-1879. See: Wright's version. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wrightine | <chemistry> A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree (Wrightia antidysenterica), and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrhoea. Synonym: conessine, and neriine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wringbolt | A bolt used by shipwrights, to bend and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; not to be confounded with ringbolt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wrinkle | 1. A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth. "The wrinkles in my brows." "Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth." (Emerson) 2. Hence, any roughness; unevenness. "Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky." (Dryden) 3. [Perhaps a different word, and a dim. AS. Wrenc a twisting, deceit. Cf. Wrench] A notion or fancy; a whim; as, to have a new wrinkle. Origin: OE. Wrinkil, AS. Wrincle; akin to OD. Wrinckel, and prob. To Dan. Rynke, Sw. Rynka, Icel. Hrukka, OHG. Runza, G. Runzel, L. Ruga. 1. To contract into furrows and prominences; to make a wrinkle or wrinkles in; to corrugate; as, wrinkle the skin or the brow. "Sport that wrinkled Care derides." "Her wrinkled form in black and white arrayed." (Pope) 2. Hence, to make rough or uneven in any way. "A keen north wind that, blowing dry, Wrinkled the face of deluge, as decayed." (Milton) "Then danced we on the wrinkled sand." (Bryant) To wrinkle at, to sneer at. Origin: Wrinkled; Wrinkling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wrinkler muscle of eyebrow | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, from orbital portion of musculus orbicularis oculi and nasal prominence; insertion, skin of eyebrow; action, draws medial end of eyebrow downward and wrinkles forehead vertically; nerve supply, facial. Synonym: musculus corrugator supercilii, Coiter's muscle, corrugator muscle, wrinkler muscle of eyebrow. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wrisberg's cartilage | A small nonarticulating rod of elastic cartilage in the aryepiglottic fold anterolateral and somewhat superior to the corniculate cartilage. Synonym: cartilago cuneiformis, Morgagni's cartilage, Morgagni's tubercle, Wrisberg's cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wrisberg's ganglia | Parasympathetic ganglia of the cardiac plexus lying between the arch of the aorta and the bifurcation of the pulmonary artery. Synonym: ganglia cardiaca, Wrisberg's ganglia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wrisberg's ligament | <anatomy> The band that passes posterior to the posterior cruciate ligament extending between the medial condyle of the femur and the posterior crus of the lateral meniscus. Synonym: ligamentum meniscofemorale posterius, ligamentum cruciatum tertium genus, ligamentum menisci lateralis, Wrisberg's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |