| AHSP | AIDS Health Services Program [of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation] |
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| LWS | Lowry-Wood syndrome |
| RWJF | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
| wood | Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. Alternative forms: wode] "Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood." (Chaucer) Origin: OE. Wod, AS. Wd; akin to OHG. Wuot, Icel. R, Goth. Wds, D. Woede madness, G. Wuth, wut, also to AS. W song, Icel. R, L. Vates a seer, a poet. Cf. Wednesday. To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad. To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive. Origin: Wooded; Wooding. To take or get a supply of wood. 1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; frequently used in the plural. "Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood." (Shak) 2. The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber. "To worship their own work in wood and stone for gods." 3. <botany> The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain. Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose and lignin, which are isomeric with starch. 4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. Wood acid, Wood vinegar Any one of several species of handsomely coloured South American humming birds belonging to the genus Thalurania. The males are bright blue, or green and blue. Wood offering, wood burnt on the altar. "We cast the lots . . . For the wood offering." (Neh. X. <botany> 34) Wood oil The wood warbler. The willow warbler. Origin: OE. Wode, wude, AS. Wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG. Witu, Icel. Vir, Dan. & Sw. Ved wood, and probably to Ir. & Gael. Fiodh, W. Gwydd trees, shrubs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wood alcohol | CH3OH;a flammable, toxic, mobile liquid, used as an industrial solvent, antifreeze, and in chemical manufacture; ingestion may result in severe acidosis, visual impairment, and other effects on the central nervous system. Synonym: carbinol, methanol, pyroligneous alcohol, pyroligneous spirit, pyroxylic spirit, wood alcohol, wood naphtha, wood spirit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood charcoal | Charcoal obtained by charring vegetable tissues, especially the wood of willow, beech, birch, or oak. Synonym: wood charcoal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood naphtha | CH3OH;a flammable, toxic, mobile liquid, used as an industrial solvent, antifreeze, and in chemical manufacture; ingestion may result in severe acidosis, visual impairment, and other effects on the central nervous system. Synonym: carbinol, methanol, pyroligneous alcohol, pyroligneous spirit, pyroxylic spirit, wood alcohol, wood naphtha, wood spirit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood spirit | CH3OH;a flammable, toxic, mobile liquid, used as an industrial solvent, antifreeze, and in chemical manufacture; ingestion may result in severe acidosis, visual impairment, and other effects on the central nervous system. Synonym: carbinol, methanol, pyroligneous alcohol, pyroligneous spirit, pyroxylic spirit, wood alcohol, wood naphtha, wood spirit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood sugar | D-xylose. See: xylose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood tick | <zoology> Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. When they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. The common species of the Northern United States is Ixodes unipunctata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wood units | A simplified measurement of pulmonary vascular resistance that uses pressures instead of more complicated units measured by subtracting pulmonary capillary wedge pressure from the mean pulmonary arterial pressure and dividing by cardiac output in liters per minute. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood vinegar | Pyracetic acid;impure acetic acid produced by the destructive distillation of pine tar and wood. Synonym: pyroligneous vinegar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood wool | A specially prepared, not compressed, wood fibre used for surgical dressings. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wood's glass | A glass containing nickel oxide, used in Wood's lamp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wood's lamp | An ultraviolet lamp with a nickel oxide filter that only passes light with a maximal wavelength of about 3660 A |
| Wood's light | Ultraviolet light produced by Wood's lamp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wood's metal | A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66 deg to 71 deg C. See Fusible metal, under Fusible. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Wood, Paul | <person> See: Wood units. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aloes wood | See Agalloch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| amboyna wood | A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bethabara wood | <botany> A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| brazil wood | 1. The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan; so called before the discovery of America. 2. A very heavy wood of a reddish colour, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An interior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. Crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto, but the better kind is also frequently so named. Origin: OE. Brasil, LL. Brasile (cf. Pg. & Sp. Brasil, Pr. Bresil, Pr. Bresil); perh. From Sp. Or Pg. Brasa a live coal (cf. Braze, Brasier); or Ar. Vars plant for dyeing red or yellow. This name was given to the wood from its colour; and it is said that King Emanuel, of Portugal, gave the name Brazil to the country in South America on account of its producing this wood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| cedar wood oil | Volatile oil obtained from the wood of Juniperus virginiana (family Pinaceae); used as an insect repellent, in perfumery, and as a clearing agent in microscopy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gopher wood | A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. Origin: Heb. Gopher. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rosetta wood | An east Indian wood of a reddish orange colour, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| myall wood | <botany> A durable, fragrant, and dark-coloured Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obtained from the small tree Acacia homolophylla. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sapan wood | <botany> A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. Alternative forms: sappan wood. Origin: Malay sapang. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sappan wood | <botany> A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. Alternative forms: sappan wood. Origin: Malay sapang. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea wood louse | <zoology> A sea slater. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shittim wood | The wood of the shittah tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| nicaragua wood | 1. The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan; so called before the discovery of America. 2. A very heavy wood of a reddish colour, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An interior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. Crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto, but the better kind is also frequently so named. Origin: OE. Brasil, LL. Brasile (cf. Pg. & Sp. Brasil, Pr. Bresil, Pr. Bresil); perh. From Sp. Or Pg. Brasa a live coal (cf. Braze, Brasier); or Ar. Vars plant for dyeing red or yellow. This name was given to the wood from its colour; and it is said that King Emanuel, of Portugal, gave the name Brazil to the country in South America on account of its producing this wood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| omander wood | <botany> The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon. Origin: Etymol. Uncertain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| orange wood | A soft wood used in dentistry for placement of bridges, crowns, etc. By biting pressure, also used as a burnishing point in the polishing of root surfaces. (05 Mar 2000) |
Synonyms : Woods
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| wood pulp |
wood that has been ground to a pulp; used in making cellulose products (as rayon or paper)
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| wood sugar |
a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics
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| wood tick |
common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia
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| woodruff |
sweet woodruff: Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula any plant of the genus Asperula
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| wood pulp |
Mechanical or chemical pulp of more or less even consistency; chemical pulp, mechanical pulp, refiner mechanical pulp
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| Wood | a golfclub with a long shaft used to hit long shots |
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| Wood | any wind instrument other than the brass instruments |
| Wood | the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area |
| Wood | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees |
| Wood | made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood |
| Wood | concerning or dwelling or situated in a wood |
| Wood | United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942) |
| Wood | English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887) |
| Wood | English conductor (1869-1944) |
| Wood | United States film actress (1938-1981) |
| Wood | a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol |
| Wood | European anemone with solitary white flowers common in deciduous woodlands |
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