| misc | miscarriage; miscellaneous |
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| HDLW | distance from which a watch ticking is heard by left ear |
| HDRW | distance from which a watch ticking is heard by right ear |
| MOOW | Medical Officer of the Watch |
| W/C | watch carefully; wheel chair |
| watch | 1. The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night. "Shepherds keeping watch by night." (Milton) "All the long night their mournful watch they keep." (Addison) Watch was formerly distinguished from ward, the former signifying a watching or guarding by night, and the latter a watching, guarding, or protecting by day Hence, they were not unfrequently used together, especially in the phrase to keep watch and ward, to denote continuous and uninterrupted vigilance or protection, or both watching and guarding. This distinction is now rarely recognised, watch being used to signify a watching or guarding both by night and by day, and ward, which is now rarely used, having simply the meaning of guard, or protection, without reference to time. "Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward." (Spenser) "Ward, guard, or custodia, is chiefly applied to the daytime, in order to apprehend rioters, and robbers on the highway . . . Watch, is properly applicable to the night only, . . . And it begins when ward ends, and ends when that begins." (Blackstone) 2. One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard. "Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can." (Matt. Xxvii. 65) 3. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept. "He upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch." (Shak) 4. The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night. "I did stand my watch upon the hill." (Shak) "Might we but hear . . . Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock Count the night watches to his feathery dames." (Milton) 5. A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring. Watches are often distinguished by the kind of escapement used, as an anchor watch, a lever watch, a chronometer watch, etc. (see the Note under Escapement, 3); also, by the kind of case, as a gold or silver watch, an open-faced watch, a hunting watch, or hunter, etc. 6. An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch. That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch. Anchor watch, a small, handy purchase, consisting of a tailed double block, and a single block with a hook. Origin: OE. Wacche, AS. Waecce, fr. Wacian to wake; akin to D. Wacht, waak, G. Wacht, wache. See Wake. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| water-whistle sound | A bubbling whistle heard on auscultation over a bronchial or pulmonary fistula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| whistle | 1. To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds. "The weary plowman leaves the task of day, And, trudging homeward, whistles on the way." (Gay) 2. To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument, somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone. 3. To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air. "The wild winds whistle, and the billows roar." (Pope) Origin: AS. Hwistlian; akin to Sw. Hvissla, Dan. Hvisle, Icel. Hvisla to whisper, and E. Whisper. See Whisper. 1. A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle. "Might we but hear The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes, . . . Or whistle from the lodge." (Milton) "The countryman could not forbear smiling, . . . And by that means lost his whistle." (Spectator) "They fear his whistle, and forsake the seas." (Dryden) 2. The shrill sound made by wind passing among trees or through crevices, or that made by bullet, or the like, passing rapidly through the air; the shrill noise (much used as a signal, etc) made by steam or gas escaping through a small orifice, or impinging against the edge of a metallic bell or cup. 3. An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam). "The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew." (Pope) 4. The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling. "So was her jolly whistle well ywet." (Chaucer) "Let's drink the other cup to wet our whistles. <zoology>" (Walton) Whistle duck, the American golden-eye. Origin: AS. Hwistle a pipe, flute, whistle. See Whistle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whistle-tip catheter | A catheter with an opening at the end and side. (05 Mar 2000) |
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