| Walther's dilator | A gently curved instrument that tapers to an increased diameter, used to dilate the female urethra. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Walther's ducts | From 8 to 20 small ducts of the sublingual salivary gland that open into the mouth on the surface of the sublingual fold; a few join the submandibular ducts. Synonym: ductus sublinguales minores, Rivinus' ducts, Walther's canals, Walther's ducts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Walther's ganglion | The most inferior, unpaired ganglion of the sympathetic trunk; inconstant. Synonym: coccygeal ganglion, Walther's ganglion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Walther's plexus | <anatomy> The portion of the internal carotid plexus in the cavernous sinus. Synonym: plexus cavernosus, Walther's plexus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Walther, August | <person> German anatomist, 1688-1746. See: Walther's dilator, Walther's canals, Walther's ducts, Walther's ganglion, Walther's plexus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| waltzed flap | A tubed flap transferred end-over-end (in stages) from the donor area to a distant recipient area. Synonym: waltzed flap. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wamble | 1. To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; said of the stomach. 2. To move irregularly to and fro; to roll. Origin: Cf. Dan. Vamle, and vammel squeamish, ready to vomit, Icel. Vaema to feel nausea, vaeminn nauseous. Disturbance of the stomach; a feeling of nausea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wamble-cropped | Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wamp | <zoology> The common American eider. Origin: From the North American Indian name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wampee | <botany> A tree (Cookia punctata) of the Orange family, growing in China and the East Indies; also, its fruit, which is about the size of a large grape, and has a hard rind and a peculiar flavor. The pickerel weed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wampum | Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc, as an ornament. "Round his waist his belt of wampum." (Longfellow) "Girded with his wampum braid." (Whittier) These beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other black or dark purple. The term wampum is properly applied only to the white; the dark purple ones are called suckanhock. See Seawan. "It [wampum] consisted of cylindrical pieces of the shells of testaceous fishes, a quarter of an inch long, and in diameter less than a pipestem, drilled . . . So as to be strung upon a thread. The beads of a white colour, rated at half the value of the black or violet, passed each as the equivalent of a farthing in transactions between the natives and the planters." Origin: North American Indian wampum, wompam, from the Mass. Wompi, Del. Wape, white. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wandering | <physiology> From Wander, Wandering albatross, an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood. <botany> Wandering Jew, any one of a tribe of spiders that wander about in search of their prey. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wandering abscess | An abscess that breaks down tissue barriers to enter adjacent areas. Synonym: gravitation abscess, hypostatic abscess, migrating abscess, wandering abscess. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wandering cell | A cell such as a leukocyte, having ameboid movements, with a power of locomotion. Synonym: wandering cell. Synonym: migratory cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wandering erysipelas | A widely spreading form involving the entire face or body surface. Synonym: ambulant erysipelas, wandering erysipelas. (05 Mar 2000) |