| WA | when awake; white adult; Wiskott-Aldrich [syndrome] |
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| WAF | weakness, atrophy and fasciculation; white adult female |
| WAM | white adult male; worksheet for ambulatory medicine |
| WCC | Walker carcinosarcoma cells; white cell count |
| WCS | white clot syndrome; Wisconsin Card Sort [test] |
| whitener | One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher. A bleach. 2. A chemical used as an adjunct to laundering white cloth, which makes white cloth appear whiter. A bluing agent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| whiteness | 1. The quality or state of being white; white colour, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface. 2. Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc. "The whiteness in thy cheek." 3. Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness. "He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept." (Byron) 4. Nakedness. 5. <zoology> A flock of swans. Origin: AS. Hwitness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitepox | A mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent strain of the virus. Synonym: Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milkpox, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, whitepox. Origin: Pg. Alastrar, to scatter over (05 Mar 2000) |
| whiterump | <zoology> The American black-tailed godwit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whites | 1. <medicine> Leucorrha. 2. The finest flour made from white wheat. 3. Cloth or garments of a plain white colour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whiteside | <zoology> The golden-eye. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitetail | 1. <zoology> The Virginia deer. 2. <zoology> The wheatear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitethorn | <botany> The hawthorn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitethroat | <zoology> Any one of several species of Old World warblers, especially. The common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. Hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. Curruca). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitetop | <botany> Fiorin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitewall | <zoology> The spotted flycatcher; so called from the white colour of the under parts. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitewash | 1. Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair. 2. A composition of line and water, or of whiting size, and water, or the like, used for whitening walls, ceilings, etc.; milk of lime. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whiteweed | <botany> A perennial composite herb (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) with conspicuous white rays and a yellow disk, a common weed in grass lands and pastures. Synonym: oxeye daisy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitewing | <zoology> The chaffinch; so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitewood | The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc. Several other kinds of light-coloured wood are called whitewood in various countries, as the wood of Bignonia leucoxylon in the West Indies, of Pittosporum bicolour in Tasmania, etc. Whitewood bark. See the Note under Canella. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| white matter |
A type of neural tissue in the brain and spinal cord composed primarily of myelin-covered axons. Contrast with gray matter.
출처: www.aegis.com/ni/topics/glossary/w.asp
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| white blood cell |
White blood cells have a number of roles in the immune system, including antibody production, attacking and destroying cancer cells, and producing substances that kill cancer cells. Also called lymphocytes.
출처: nydailynews.healthology.com/nydailynews/15836.htm
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| white matter |
Areas in the brain and spinal cord that consist of myelinated nerve cells (neurones). Myelinated nerve cells are those in which their long thread-like extensions (axons) are covered in a layer of white, fatty, insulating material called myelin.
출처: www.spinalnet.co.uk/EEndCom/GBCON/homepage.nsf/0/3...
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| white coat hypertension |
Blood pressure that is elevated in the doctor's office but normal outside of the doctor's office.
출처: www.pbs.org/secondopinion/episodes/hypertension/me...
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| white blood cell |
WBC. A type of cell in the immune system that helps the body fight infection and disease. White blood cells include lymphocytes, granulocytes, macrophages, and others.
출처: www.seniormag.com/conditions/cancer/cancerglossary...
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| white | bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx |
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| white | North American herb with white poisonous berries |
| white | blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi |
| white | a crappie that is white |
| white | small silvery marine food fish found off California |
| white | silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters |
| white | garden currant bearing small white berries |
| white | slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States |
| white | small tree or shrub of southern Australia |
| white | tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers |
| white | European dead nettle with white flowers |
| white | shrubby climber having glossy leaves and white funnel-shaped flowers with yellow throats |