| WE | wax ester; Wernicke encephalopathy; western encephalitis; western encephalomyelitis; wound of entry |
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| MASA | Medical Association of South Africa; mental retardation-aphasia-shuffling gait-adducted thumbs [synd... |
| CWRS | Case Western Reserve University |
| BWYV | beet western yellow virus |
| IWB | indeterminate [HIV-1] Western blot; index of well being |
| BWYV | Beet western yellows virus |
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| TWSTRS | Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale |
| WB | Western blot |
| WAB | Western Aphasia Battery |
| W.A. | Western Australia |
| africa, western | The geographical area of africa comprising benin, burkina faso, cote d'ivoire, gambia, ghana, guinea, guinea-bissau, liberia, mali, mauritania, niger, nigeria, senegal, sierra leone, and togo. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| africa, eastern | The geographical area of africa comprising burundi, djibouti, ethiopia, kenya, rwanda, somalia, sudan, tanzania, and uganda. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| africa, northern | The geographical area of africa comprising algeria, egypt, libya, morocco, and tunisia. It includes also the vast deserts and oases of the sahara. It is often referred to as north africa, french-speaking africa, or the magreb. (12 Dec 1998) |
| africa, southern | The geographical area of africa comprising angola, botswana, lesotho, malawi, mozambique, namibia, south africa, swaziland, zambia, and zimbabwe. It includes what was formerly called south-west africa or german southwest africa but it was terminated in 1966 by a united nations resolution. (12 Dec 1998) |
| africa south of the sahara | All of africa except northern africa (africa, northern). (12 Dec 1998) |
| central africa | <geography> The geographical area of africa comprising cameroon, central african republic, chad, congo, equatorial guinea, gabon, and democratic republic of the congo. (12 Dec 1998) |
| south africa | A republic in southern africa, the southernmost part of africa. It has three capitals: pretoria (administrative), cape town (legislative), and bloemfontein (judicial). The history is a fabric interwoven with hostile activity among the native tribes, particularly the zulus, the boers (dutch settlers), and the british. Officially the republic of south africa since 1960, it was called the union of south africa 1910-1960. (12 Dec 1998) |
| asia, western | The geographical designation for the countries of the middle east and the countries bangladesh, bhutan, india, nepal, pakistan, and sri lanka. (12 Dec 1998) |
| blotting, western | Identification of proteins or peptides that have been electrophoretically separated by blotting and transferred to strips of nitrocellulose paper. The blots are then detected by radiolabelled antibody probes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| blot, western | A technique in molecular biology, used to separate and identify proteins. Called a Western blot merely because it has some similarity to a Southern blot (which is named after its inventor, the British biologist M.E. Southern). (12 Dec 1998) |
| western | 1. Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean. "Far o'er the glowing western main." (Keble) 2. Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze. Western Church. See Latin Church, under Latin. Western empire, the western portion of the Roman empire, as divided, by the will of Theodosius the Great, between his sons Honorius and Arcadius, a. D. 395. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| western Australia | A state in western Australia. Its capital is perth. It was first visited by the dutch in 1616 but the english took possession in 1791 and permanent colonization began in 1829. It was a penal settlement 1850-1888, became part of the colonial government in 1886, and was granted self government in 1890. (12 Dec 1998) |
| western blot | <technique> A technique similar to Southern blotting, though it is used for proteins. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Western blot analysis | A procedure in which proteins separated by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels are transferred (blotted) onto nitrocellulose or nylon membranes and identified by specific complexing with antibodies that are either pre-or post-tagged with a labelled secondary protein. See: immunoblot. Synonym: Western blot, Western blotting. Origin: coined to distinguish it from eponymic Southern blot a. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Western blotting | <molecular biology> An electroblotting method in which proteins are transferred from a gel to a thin, rigid support (nitrocellulose) and detected by binding of labelled antibody. See: blots. (18 Nov 1997) |
| western equine encephalomyelitis | An equine encephalomyelitis found in the western U.S. And parts of South America, transmitted by mosquitoes and caused by the western equine encephalomyelitis virus (a species of Alphavirus in the family Togaviridae); the infection is similar to but milder than eastern equine encephalomyelitis in man and is, as a rule, inapparent, but some cases with central nervous system involvement have been fatal. (05 Mar 2000) |
Synonyms : Western Africa
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