| weeping | 1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. "Weeping eyes." 2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. "Weeping grounds." 3. Having slender, pendent branches; said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash. 4. Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep. Weeping cross, a cross erected on or by the highway, especially for the devotions of penitents; hence, to return by the weeping cross, to return from some undertaking in humiliation or penitence. Weeping rock, a porous rock from which water gradually issues. Weeping sinew, a ganglion. See Ganglion. Weeping spring, a spring that discharges water slowly. <botany> Weeping willow, a species of willow (Salix Babylonica) whose branches grow very long and slender, and hang down almost perpendicularly. (04 Mar 1998) |
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| weeping eczema | A moist, eczematous dermatitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| weesel | <zoology> See Weasel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| weet-bird | <zoology> The wry neck; so called from its cry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| weet-weet | <zoology> The common European sandpiper. The chaffinch. Origin: So called from its piping cry when disturbed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| weever | <zoology> Any one of several species of edible marine fishes belonging to the genus Trachinus, of the family Trachinidae. They have a broad spinose head, with the eyes looking upward. The long dorsal fin is supported by numerous strong, sharp spines which cause painful wounds. The two British species are the great, or greater, weever (Trachinus draco), which becomes a foot long (called also gowdie, sea cat, stingbull, and weaverfish), and the lesser weever (T. Vipera), about half as large (called also otter pike, and stingfish). Origin: Probably from F. Vive, OF. Vivre, a kind of fish, L. Vipera viper. Cf. Viper. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| weevil | <zoology> Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See also Pea weevil, Rice weevil, Seed weevil. Origin: OE. Wivel, wevil, AS. Wifel, wibil; akin to OD. Wevel, OHG. Wibil, wibel, G. Wiebel, wibel, and probably to Lith. Vabalas beetle, and E. Weave. See Weave. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| weezel | <zoology> See Weasel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wegener granulomatosis | <radiology> Sinuses, mucoperiosteal thickening, may destroy bone and cartilage, lungs, necrotizing granulomata, multiple round nodules (2 mm - 9 cm), may cavitate, kidneys, glomerulonephritis most likely to be necrosis of capillary tuft, generalised necrotizing vasculitis of arteries and veins, auto-immune: basement membrane, almost always involves lungs, M = F, 30-50 years of age, symptoms: cough, haemoptysis, fever, wt loss, multiple respecially infections, treatment: cytotoxins, immunosuppression (12 Dec 1998) |
| Wegener's granulomatosis | <immunology, nephrology> Wegener's granulomatosis or midline granulomatosis is a rare disorder characterised by chronic tissue inflammation (due to the inflammation of blood vessels) and granuloma (aggregates of cells) formation in the nasal passages, lungs and kidneys. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Wegener, Friedrich | <person> German pathologist, 1907-1990. See: Wegener's granulomatosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wegner's disease | syphilitic osteochondritis |
| Wegner's line | A narrow, whitish, slightly curved line representing an area of preliminary calcification at the junction of the epiphysis and diaphysis of a long bone, related to syphilitic epiphysitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wegner, Friedrich | <person> German pathologist, 1843-1917. See: Wegner's disease, Wegner's line. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weibel Palade body | <haematology> Cytoplasmic organelle found in the vascular endothelial cells of some animals, though not in the endothelium of all vessels. Although markers for endothelium, their absence does not necessarily mean the cells are not of endothelial origin. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Wernicke's encephalopathy |
a neurological disorder characterized by confusion, apathy, drowsiness, ataxia of gait, nystagmus, and ophthalmoplegia. It was first described by Wernicke in 1881 and is now known to be due to thiamine deficiency, usually from chronic alcohol abuse. It is almost invariably accompanied by or followed by Korsakoff's syndrome (organic amnesia) and frequently accompanied by other nutritional polyneuropathies. Called also Wernicke's disease or syndrome. ...
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| West Nile virus |
a virus of the genus Flavivirus antigenically closely related to Murray Valley virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, and Japanese encephalitis virus, that causes West Nile encephalitis; it is transmitted by Culex mosquitoes, with wild birds serving as the reservoir and occurs widely in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and has recently been reported in the United States.
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| wet colostomy |
colostomy in (a) the right half of the colon, the drainage from which is liquid in character, or (b) the left half of the colon following anastomosis of the ureters to the sigmoid or descending colon so that urine is also expelled through the same stoma.
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| wet pack |
wet-sheet pack, wet blankets or sheets, hot or cold, for wrapping an extremity or the entire body.
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| webbed penis |
a penis that is enclosed by the skin of the scrotum; called also p. palmatus.
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| WE | diminish, as by friction |
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| WE | pass slowly (of time) |
| WE | exhaust or tire though overuse or great strain or stress |
| WE | deteriorate through use or stress |
| WE | go to pieces |
| WE | turn (a boat) into the wind |
| WE | turn away from the wind |
| WE | exercise authority or be in charge |
| WE | deteriorate through use or stress |
| WE | exhaust or tire though overuse or great strain or stress |
| WE | suitable for wear or able to be worn |
| WE | one that wears or carries or displays something as a body covering or accessory |