| Wood, Robert | <person> U.S. Physicist, 1868-1955. See: Wood's glass, Wood's lamp, Wood's light. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| wood-sare | <botany> A kind of froth seen on herbs. Origin: Wood + Prov. E. Sare for sore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-sere | The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season. Alternative forms: wood-seer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wood's glass | A glass containing nickel oxide, used in Wood's lamp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wood's lamp | An ultraviolet lamp with a nickel oxide filter that only passes light with a maximal wavelength of about 3660 A |
| Wood's light | Ultraviolet light produced by Wood's lamp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood's metal | A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66 deg to 71 deg C. See Fusible metal, under Fusible. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood spirit | CH3OH;a flammable, toxic, mobile liquid, used as an industrial solvent, antifreeze, and in chemical manufacture; ingestion may result in severe acidosis, visual impairment, and other effects on the central nervous system. Synonym: carbinol, methanol, pyroligneous alcohol, pyroligneous spirit, pyroxylic spirit, wood alcohol, wood naphtha, wood spirit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood sugar | D-xylose. See: xylose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood tick | <zoology> Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. When they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. The common species of the Northern United States is Ixodes unipunctata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wood units | A simplified measurement of pulmonary vascular resistance that uses pressures instead of more complicated units measured by subtracting pulmonary capillary wedge pressure from the mean pulmonary arterial pressure and dividing by cardiac output in liters per minute. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood vinegar | Pyracetic acid;impure acetic acid produced by the destructive distillation of pine tar and wood. Synonym: pyroligneous vinegar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood-wash | Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-wax | <botany> Same as Woadwaxen. Origin: AS. Wuduweaxe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wood-waxen | <botany> Same as Woadwaxen. Origin: AS. Wuduweaxe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |