| 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) |