| WBC | well baby care/clinic; white blood cell; white blood cell count; whole blood cell count |
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| WB | waist belt; washable base; washed bladder; water bottle; Wechsler-Bellevue [Scale]; weight-bearing; ... |
| WD | wallerian degeneration; well developed; well differentiated; wet dressing; Whitney Damon [dextrose];... |
| WDWN, wdwn | well developed and well nourished |
| PDC | parkinsonism dementia complex; pediatric cardiology; penta-decylcatechol; phosducin; physical depend... |
| CCF | Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
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| FPC | Family Planning Clinic |
| LRC | Lipid Research Clinic |
| PGWB | Psychological General Well Being |
| PGWB | Psychological General Well-Being Index |
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| clinic | 1. An institution, building, or part of a building where ambulatory patients are cared for. 2. An institution, building, or part of a building in which medical instruction is given to students by means of demonstrations in the presence of the sick. 3. A lecture or symposium on a subject relating to disease. Origin: G. Kline, bed (05 Mar 2000) |
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| atrial-well technique | An obsolete semi-closed surgical technique for repairing atrial septal defects and other cardiac abnormalities. (05 Mar 2000) |
| well | 1. Good in condition or circumstances; desirable, either in a natural or moral sense; fortunate; convenient; advantageous; happy; as, it is well for the country that the crops did not fail; it is well that the mistake was discovered. "It was well with us in Egypt." (Num. Xi. 18) 2. Being in health; sound in body; not ailing, diseased, or sick; healthy; as, a well man; the patient is perfectly well. "Your friends are well." "Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake?" (Gen. Xliii. 27) 3. Being in favor; favored; fortunate. "He followed the fortunes of that family, and was well with Henry the Fourth." (Dryden) 4. Safe; as, a chip warranted well at a certain day and place. 1. An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain. "Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well." (Milton) 2. A pit or hole sunk into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with stone or bricks to prevent the earth from caving in. "The woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep." (John iv. 11) 3. A shaft made in the earth to obtain oil or brine. 4. A source of supply; fountain; wellspring. "This well of mercy." "Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled." (Spenser) "A well of serious thought and pure." (Keble) 5. An inclosure in the middle of a vessel's hold, around the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck, to preserve the pumps from damage and facilitate their inspection. A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market. A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water. A depressed space in the after part of the deck; often called the cockpit. 6. A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries. 7. An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole. 8. <chemistry> The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls. Artesian well, Driven well. See Artesian, and Driven. Pump well. A staircase having a wellhole (see Wellhole), as distinguished from one which occupies the whole of the space left for it in the floor. Well sweep. Same as Sweep. Well water, the water that flows into a well from subterraneous springs; the water drawn from a well. Origin: OE. Welle, AS. Wella, wylla, from weallan to well up, surge, boil; akin to D. Wel a spring or fountain. See Well. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| well counter | A scintillation crystal shaped with a central hole to receive a small sample, plus associated detector and electronics. (05 Mar 2000) |
| well-differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma | <tumour> Essentially the same disease as chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, except that lymphocytes are not increased in the peripheral blood; lymph nodes are enlarged and other lymphoid tissue or bone marrow is infiltrated by small lymphocytes. Synonym: small lymphocytic lymphoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| well-liking | Being in good condition. "They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking." (Bk. Of Com. Prayer (Ps. Xcii)) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| baby | 1. An infant or young child of either sex; a babe. 2. A small image of an infant; a doll. Babies in the eyes, the minute reflection which one sees of one's self in the eyes of another. "She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes." (Heywood) Origin: Dim. Of babe. (12 Mar 1998) |
| baby bottle syndrome | Rampant caries of the primary dentition associated with the habitual use, after age 1, of a baby bottle as an aid for sleeping. Synonym: baby bottle syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| baby, foetal alcohol syndrome | <syndrome> Alcohol is capable of causing birth defects. FAS (foetal alcohol syndrome) always involves brain damage. And impaired growth. FAS also always involves head and face abnormalities. No amount of alcohol has been proven safe during pregnancy. Women who are or may become pregnant are advised to avoid alcohol. (12 Dec 1998) |
| baby tooth | A tooth of the first set of teeth, comprising 20 in all, that erupts between the mean ages of 6 and 28 months of life. Synonym: dens deciduus, baby tooth, deciduous dentition, dens lacteus, first dentition, milk tooth, primary dentition, primary tooth, temporary tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blue baby | A baby born with various defects in the structure of the heart and major blood vessels such as tetralogy of Fallot and transposition of the great vessels. The net result is the inability to oxygenate the blood resulting in cyanosis (bluish discolouration to the skin). Immediate surgical procedures are currently available to correct these genetic abnormalities. (27 Sep 1997) |
| blueberry muffin baby | Jaundice and purpura, especially of the face in the newborn, which may result from intrauterine viral infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| collodion baby | A newborn child with lamellar ichthyosis; at birth, the skin is bright red, shiny, translucent, and drawn tight, giving a distorted appearance (as if having been painted with collodion) of immobilization of the face; contraction of the skin causes ectropion, a pressed down appearance of the nose, and a gaping of the mouth and the labia; autosomal dominant inheritance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| syndrome, floppy baby | Floppy baby syndrome is a general medical reference to an abnormal condition of newborns and infants manifest by inadequate tone of the muscles. Hypotonia (inadequately toned muscles resulting in floppiness) in the newborn period and infancy can be due to a multitude of different neurologic and muscle problems. (12 Dec 1998) |
| test-tube baby | Popular term for a baby born after uterine implantation of a maternal ovum fertilised in vitro. (05 Mar 2000) |
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