| Wolfler's gland | An isolated mass, or one of several such masses, of thyroid tissue, sometimes present in the side of the neck, or just above the hyoid bone (suprahyoid accessory thyroid gland), or even as low as the arch of the aorta. Synonym: glandula thyroidea accessoria, accessory thyroid, prehyoid gland, suprahyoid gland, thyroidea accessoria, thyroidea ima, Wolfler's gland. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Wolfler, Anton | <person> Bohemian surgeon, 1850-1917. See: Wolfler's gland. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wolfram | <chemical> Same as Wolframite. Origin: G. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wolfram syndrome | <syndrome> Hereditary association of diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, optic atrophy, and neural deafness. (12 Dec 1998) |
| wolframate | <chemistry> A salt of wolframic acid; a tungstate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wolframic | <chemistry> Of or pertaining to wolframium. See Tungstic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wolframite | <chemical> Tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a brownish or grayish black colour, submetallic luster, and high specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. Synonym: wolfram. Origin: G, wolframit, wolfram; wolf wolf + rahm cream, soot; cf. G. Wolfsruss wolfram, lit, wolf's soot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wolframium | <chemistry> The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten. Origin: NL. See Wolfram. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wolfring's glands | Small, compound, branched, tubular glands located in the middle part of the lid (Wolfring's glands, 1872, or Ciaccio's glands, 1874) and along the superior and inferior fornices of the conjunctival sac (Krause's glands, 1854). These accessory glands are just scattered scraps of lacrimal gland tissue; all of them produce the same kind of tears and debouch on to the conjunctival surface. Henle's and Baumgarten's "glands" are in fact not glands at all, but mere epithelial invaginations. Synonym: glandulae lacrimales accessoriae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wolfring, Emilj von | <person> Polish ophthalmologist, 1832-1906. See: Wolfring's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wolfsbane | <botany> A poisonous plant (Aconitum Lycoctonum), a kind of monkshood; also, by extension, any plant or species of the genus Aconitum. See Aconite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |