| Wilder's sign | <clinical sign> A slight twitch of the eyeball when changing its movement from abduction to adduction or the reverse, noted in Graves' disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Wilder, Helenor | <person> 20th century U.S. Scientist. See: Wilder's stain for reticulum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wilder, Joseph | <person> U.S. Neuropsychiatrist, *1895. See: Wilder's law of initial value. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wilder, William | <person> U.S. Ophthalmologst, 1860-1935. See: Wilder's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wildering | <botany> A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wilderment | The state of being bewildered; confusion; bewilderment. "And snatched her breathless from beneath This wilderment of wreck and death." (Moore) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wildermuth's ear | An ear in which the helix is turned backward and the anthelix is prominent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wildermuth, Hermann | <person> German psychiatrist, 1852-1907. See: Wildermuth's ear. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wildervanck syndrome | <syndrome> A congenital short neck associated with paralysis of the external ocular muscles and with perceptive deafness; occurs in girls. Synonym: Wildervanck syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wildervanck, L | <person> 20th century Dutch geneticist. See: Wildervanck syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wildfire | 1. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire. "Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . Burn cruelly, and hard to quench." (Bacon) 2. <medicine> An old name for erysipelas. A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin. 3. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wildfire rash | An eruption of papules and vesicles at the orifices of sweat glands, accompanied by redness and inflammatory reaction of the skin. Synonym: heat rash, lichen infantum, lichen strophulosus, prickly heat, strophulus, summer rash, tropical lichen, lichen tropicus, wildfire rash. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wilding | <botany> A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant. "Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found." (Dryden) "The fruit of the tree . . . Is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding." (Landor) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wildlife corridor | <ecology> Linear spaces that connect the various areas of an animals habitat, links between feeding, watering, resting, and breeding places. (09 Oct 1997) |
| wildlife habitat | <ecology> An area that provides a water supply and vegetative habitat for wildlife. (09 Oct 1997) |