| Webster, John C | <person> U.S. Gynecologist, 1863-1950. See: Webster's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| websterite | <chemical> A hydrous sulphate of alumina occurring in white reniform masses. Origin: So named after Webster, the geologist. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wechsler intelligence scales | Continuously revised and updated standardised scale's for the measurement of general intelligence in preschool children (Wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence), in children (Wechsler intelligence scale for children), and in adults (Wechsler adult intelligence scale, the successor to the Wechsler-Bellevue scale). (05 Mar 2000) |
| wechsler scales | Tests designed to measure intellectual functioning in children and adults. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Wechsler, David | <person> U.S. Psychologist, *1896. See: Wechsler intelligence scales, Wechsler-Bellevue scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wechsler-Bellevue scale | A measure of general intelligence superseded by the Wechsler adult intelligence scale and its subsequent revision. See: Wechsler intelligence scales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| weddahs | <ethnology> See Veddahs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| weddellite | Ca(O2C-CO2)-2Ha2O;a dihydrate of calcium oxalate; found in renal calculi. Compare: whewellite. Origin: for Weddell Sea, after James Weddell, Eng. Navigator, + -ite (05 Mar 2000) |
| weddellite calculus | A calculus in which the crystalloid component consists of calcium oxalate dihydrate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wedding | Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. "Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz." (Longfellow) Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names. Thus, the fifth anniversary is called the wooden wedding; the tenth, the tin wedding; the fifteenth, the crystal wedding; the twentieth, the china wedding; the twenty-fifth, the silver wedding; the fiftieth, the golden wedding; the sixtieth, the diamond wedding. These anniversaries are often celebrated by appropriate presents of wood, tin, china, silver, gold, etc, given by friends. Wedding is often used adjectively; as, wedding cake, wedding cards, wedding clothes, wedding day, wedding feast, wedding guest, wedding ring, etc. "Let her beauty be her wedding dower." (Shak) Wedding favor, a marriage favor. See Marriage. Origin: AS. Wedding. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wedeloside | <chemical> A compound found in the plant Wedelia asperrima that can inhibit the ADP/ ATP carrier system in mitochondria. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Wedensky effect | A relatively long enhancing effect following application of a maximal shock or stimulus to a neuromuscular preparation during which a subthreshold stimulation, otherwise too small to evoke a response, will produce a response; a relatively prolonged lowered threshold of excitability following a maximal shock. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wedensky facilitation | The arrival of an impulse at a blocked zone, enhancing the excitability of the nerve beyond the block and indicating that the neuromuscular preparation distal to the block has been changed even though the enhancing stimulus is not conducted through the blocked zone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wedensky inhibition | Inhibition of muscle response resulting from application of a series of rapidly repeated stimuli to the motor nerve where slower frequency of stimulation results in muscle response. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wedensky, Nikolai | <person> Russian neurophysiologist, 1852-1922. See: Wedensky effect, Wedensky facilitation, Wedensky inhibition. (05 Mar 2000) |