| Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome |
A specific type of heart rhythm abnormality. Patients with the WPW syndrome have an accessory pathway connecting the upper and lower chamber of the heart. These patients may develop a rapid heartbeat caused by a "short circuit" heart arrhythmia. WPW syndrome also may cause dangerous heart arrhythmias.
Ãâó: www.hopkinshospital.org/health_info/Heart/Reading/...
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| Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome |
An extra electrical pathway that connects the atria and ventricles and causes rapid heartbeat.
Ãâó: www.health.uab.edu/show.asp
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| Wolff |
Caspar Friedrich. 1733-1794 St. Petersburg anatomist & physiologist, founder of modern embryology; against idea that embryo was preformed; Wolffian duct = mesonephric duct (1759); Wolffian body = mesonephros (1759).
Ãâó: cellbiology.med.unsw.edu.au/units/glossary/histolo...
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| wolfram |
a name of Germanic origin originally applied to a native iron manganese tungstate and later to the element tungsten, hence the symbol W.
Ãâó: web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/archems.html
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| Wolfe's graft |
A graft using the whole skin thickness.
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