| wing-beating tumour | A coarse, irregular tumour that is most prominent when the limbs are held outstretched, reminiscent of a bird flapping its wings; due to up and down excursion of arm at abducted shoulder. Seen mainly with Wilson's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| wing-footed | 1. Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet. 2. <zoology> Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying. Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; said of the pteropod mollusks. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wing-handed | <zoology> Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wing-leaved | <botany> Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wing-shell | <zoology> Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing. Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus. Any pteropod shell. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| winged | 1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions. 2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime. "How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be followed for its own sake." (J. S. Harford) 3. Swift; rapid. "Bear this sealed brief with winged haste to the lord marshal." 4. Wounded or hurt in the wing. 5. <botany> Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate. 6. Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body. 7. Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. "The winged air darked with plumes." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| winged catheter | A soft rubber catheter with little flaps at each side of the beak to retain it in the bladder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| winged scapula | <anatomy> An outward prominence of the scapula caused by disruption of its nerves or muscles. (27 Sep 1997) |
| wingfish | <zoology> A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wingless | <molecular biology> Drosophila homologue of int 1, functions in pattern formation. (18 Nov 1997) |
| winglet | 1. A little wing; a very small wing. 2. <zoology> A bastard wing, or alula. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Winiwarter, Felix von | <person> German surgeon, 1852-1931. See: Winiwarter-Buerger disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Winiwarter-Buerger disease | <disease> A progressive occlusive disease of the blood vessels in the lower extremities. Smoking is considered a major factor in the development and acceleration of this disease. It is autoimmune in nature. Synonym:: Buerger's disease. (15 Oct 1997) |
| wink | 1. To nod; to sleep; to nap. "Although I wake or wink." 2. To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion. "He must wink, so loud he would cry." (Chaucer) "And I will wink, so shall the day seem night." (Shak) "They are not blind, but they wink." (Tillotson) 3. To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink. "A baby of some three months old, who winked, and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day." (Hawthorne) 4. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only. "Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate." (Swift) 5. To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; generally with at. "The times of this ignorance God winked at." (Acts xvii. 30) "And yet, as though he knew it not, His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign." (Herbert) "Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued." (Locke) 6. To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks. <zoology> Winking monkey, the white-nosed monkey (Cersopithecus nictitans). Origin: OE. Winken, AS. Wincian; akin to D. Wenken, G. Winken to wink, nod, beckon, OHG. Winchan, Sw. Vinka, Dan. Vinke, AS. Wancol wavering, OHG. Wanchal wavering, wanchn to waver, G. Wanken, and perhaps to E. Weak; cf. AS. Wincel a corner. Cf. Wench, Wince. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wink reflex | General term for reflex closure of eyelids caused by any stimulus. Synonym: eye-closure reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| window |
1. A band in the electromagnetic spectrum that offers maximum transmission and minimal attenuation through a particular medium with the use of a specific sensor. See atmospheric window. 2. Open water in a predominantly frozen river. It is caused by warmer water from a spring or tributary, or by turbulence over a shoal. See polyn'ya. 3. (Obsolete.) A term for the chaff used for military countermeasure purposes during World War II.
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| wing |
[wing] a flattened extension of the body wall of the thorax that enables insects to fly through the air (note: insects are the only winged invertebrates).
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A type of BCD.
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| winter itch |
Pruritus Hiemalis: a dehydrated condition of the skin characterized by erythema, dry scaling, fine cracking, and pruritus, which occurs chiefly during the winter when low humidity in heated rooms causes excessive water loss from the stratum corneum. [Dorland]
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anterior or posterior prolongation of the hinge line of a bivalve.
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| win | a national park in South Dakota featuring bison herds and limestone caverns |
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| win | the deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind |
| win | exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance) |
| win | a pass in a mountain ridge with no stream flowing through it |
| win | a gauge for recording the speed and direction of wind |
| win | power derived from the wind (as by windmills) |
| win | generator that extracts usable energy from winds |
| win | a harp having strings tuned in unison |
| win | a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath |
| win | reverse the winding or twisting of |
| win | California wild poppy with bright red flowers |
| win | power derived from the wind (as by windmills) |