| Williston, Samuel Wendell | <person> U.S. Paleontologist, 1852-1918. See: Williston's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| willock | <zoology> The common guillemot. The puffin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| willow | 1. <botany> Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterised often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. "A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight." . Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow. "And I must wear the willow garland For him that's dead or false to me." (Campbell) 2. A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Synonym: willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil. Almond willow, Pussy willow, Weeping willow. <botany> A very small European warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus). Synonym: bee bird, haybird, golden wren, pettychaps, sweet William, Tom Thumb, and willow wren. Origin: OE. Wilowe, wilwe, AS. Wilig, welig; akin to OD. Wilge, D. Wilg, LG. Wilge. Cf. Willy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| willow wattle | <botany, ecology> A living, permeable barrier made of willow stems set into the ground with willow branches woven around the stems, used to reduce erosion on steep banks or to act as a check dam in a stream. (09 Oct 1997) |
| willow-herb | <botany> A perennial herb (Epilobium spicatum) with narrow willowlike leaves and showy rose-purple flowers. The name is sometimes made to include other species of the same genus. Spiked willow-herb, a perennial herb (Lythrum Salicaria) with willowy leaves and spiked purplish flowers. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| willow-thorn | <botany> A thorny European shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) resembling a willow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| willow-weed | <botany> A European species of loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris). Any kind of Polygonum with willowlike foliage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| willow-wort | <botany> Same as Willow-weed. Any plant of the order Salicaceae, or the Willow family. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wills | A legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death. (webster 3d ed.) the application of the concept of a will in bioethics regarding the termination of his life is the heading living wills. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Wilm's tumour | <oncology, tumour> Wilm's tumour or nephroblastoma, is a cancerous tumour of the kidney in children. Wilm's is the most common tumour of the kidney and the most common intra-abdominal tumour in children. The exact cause is unknown, but probably develops in foetal tissue due to an underlying genetic factor. Like retinoblastoma, both sporadic and inherited forms occur. Believed to be caused by development of homozygosity for a deletion of the tip of the short arm of chromosome 11, which is presumed to contain a tumour suppressor gene. (07 Oct 1997) |
| wilms tumour | <radiology> Nephroblastoma, 3rd most common kiddie tumour (most common abdominal tumour), arises from embryonal renal tissue (nephroblastomatosis), large, only 10% are calcified, 4-10% bilateral, metastasis may lead to lungs, para-aortic nodes associated with: aniridia, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, hemihypertrophy, Drash syndrome Cf: neuroblastoma (more likely calcified) (12 Dec 1998) |
| Wilms' tumour | A malignant renal tumour of young children, composed of small spindle cells and various other types of tissue, including tubules and, in some cases, structures resembling foetal glomeruli, and striated muscle and cartilage. Often inherited as an autosomal dominant trait . Synonym: adenomyosarcoma, embryoma of the kidney, nephroblastoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wilms, Max | <person> German surgeon, 1867-1918. See: Wilms' tumour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wilson block | The commonest form of right bundle-branch block, characterised in lead I by a tall slender R wave followed by a wider S wave of lower voltage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wilson disease | <radiology> Abnormal copper metabolism: defect in serum ceruloplasmin, autosomal recessive Findings: copper deposition in liver most likely to be cirrhosis, increased density, degenerative changes in brain, arthritis, Kayser-Fleischer ring in Descemet's membrane (12 Dec 1998) |
| will |
The will, if not purely Roman in origin, at least owes to Roman law its complete development, a development which in most European countries was greatly aided at a later period by ecclesiastics versed in Roman law. In India, the will was unknown before English conquest. Eusebius and others have related of Noah's testament, made in writing, and witnessed under his seal, by which he disposed of the whole world. ...
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In the 21st century, eighteen is the typical age of testamentary capacity. Full liberty of disposition is not universal. In particular, many states normally grant spouses the right to at least half the estate regardless of what the will says (or if no will can be found). Some require that children cannot be disinherited without good cause. In many case, children omitted in a will may still take their share. ...
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| William James |
William James (January 11, 1842, New York - August 26, 1910, Chocorua, New Hampshire). William James was born in New York, son of Henry James, Sr., an independently wealthy and notoriously eccentric Swedenborgian theologian well acquainted with the literary and intellectual elites of his day. ...
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| windchill |
Wind chill is the apparent temperature felt on the exposed human (or animal) body due to the combination of air temperature and wind speed. ...
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Tsang, Wing Han (曾詠韓), better known simply as Wing, is a New Zealand citizen originally from Hong Kong. With a love for singing and a new country to call home, Wing was told when singing to patients at hospitals in and around Auckland that she should put out a CD, and that sparked Phantom of the Opera, her first CD. By the release of Everyone Sings Christmas Carols with Wing, she was selling internationally. ...
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| WI | a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried |
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| WI | cause to be without a spouse |
| WI | mostly black African weaverbird |
| WI | a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried |
| WI | a V-shaped point in the hairline in the middle of the forehead |
| WI | a lookout atop a coastal house |
| WI | a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning |
| WI | single because of death of the spouse |
| WI | a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried |
| WI | the state of being a widow who has not remarried |
| WI | the time of a woman's life when she is a widow |
| WI | a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried |