| CWF | Cornell Word Form |
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| DWT | dichotic word test; discrete wave transform |
| WAT | word association test |
| WIPI | Word Intelligibility Picture Identification |
| WP | weakly positive; wedge pressure; wet pack; wettable powder; whirlpool; white pulp; word processor; w... |
| CSNB | Congenital stationary night blindness |
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| RB | Repetition blindness |
| CWT | Color Word Test |
| SSW | Staggered Spondaic Word |
| WHO | Word Health Organization |
| word blindness | <neurology> Loss of the ability to understand printed words or sentences (27 Sep 1997) |
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| word | 1. To express in words; to phrase. "The apology for the king is the same, but worded with greater deference to that great prince." (Addison) 2. To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words. 3. To flatter with words; to cajole. To word it, to bandy words; to dispute. "To word it with a shrew." Origin: Worded; Wording. 1. The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable. "A glutton of words." "You cram these words into mine ears, against The stomach of my sense." (Shak) "Amongst men who confound their ideas with words, there must be endless disputes." (Locke) 2. Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page. 3. Talk; discourse; speech; language. "Why should calamity be full of words?" (Shak) "Be thy words severe; Sharp as he merits, but the sword forbear." (Dryden) 4. Account; tidings; message; communication; information; used only in the singular. "I pray you . . . Bring me word thither How the world goes." (Shak) 5. Signal; order; command; direction. "Give the word through." (Shak) 6. Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise. "Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly." (Shak) "I know you brave, and take you at your word." (Dryden) "I desire not the reader should take my word." (Dryden) 7. Verbal contention; dispute. "Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me." (Shak) 8. A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence. "All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." (Gal. V. 14) "She said; but at the happy word "he lives," My father stooped, re-fathered, o'er my wound." (Tennyson) "There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark." (Dickens) By word of mouth, orally; by actual speaking. Compound word. See Compound, Good word, commendation; favorable account. "And gave the harmless fellow a good word." . In a word, briefly; to sum up. In word, in declaration; in profession. "Let us not love in word, . . . But in deed and in truth." . <physiology> Nuns of the Word Incarnate, inability to express ideas in verbal language, though the power of speech is unimpaired. Word for word, in the exact words; verbatim; literally; exactly; as, to repeat anything word for word. Word painting, the act of describing an object fully and vividly by words only, so as to present it clearly to the mind, as if in a picture. Word picture, an accurate and vivid description, which presents an object clearly to the mind, as if in a picture. Word square, a series of words so arranged that they can be read vertically and horizontally with like results. Synonym: See Term. Origin: AS. Word; akin to OFries. & OS. Word, D. Woord, G. Wort, Icel. Orth, Sw. & Dan. Ord, Goth. Waord, OPruss. Wirds, Lith. Vardas a name, L. Verbum a word; or perhaps to Gr. "rhtwr an orator. Cf. Verb. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| word association tests | Lists of words to which individuals are asked to respond ascertaining the conceptual meaning held by the individual. (12 Dec 1998) |
| word deafness | An impairment in comprehension of the auditory forms of language and communication, including the ability to write from dictation in the presence of normal hearing. Spontaneous speech, reading, and writing are not affected. Synonym: acoustic aphasia, word deafness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| word processing | Automated production of typewritten documents with text editing and storage functions using computer software. (12 Dec 1998) |
| word salad | A jumble of meaningless and unrelated words emitted by persons with certain kinds of schizophrenia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stimulus word | The word used in association tests to evoke a response. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blindness | The inability to see or the loss or absence of perception of visual stimuli. This condition may be the result of disorders in the organs of sight or of damage or injury to certain areas of the brain. (12 Dec 1998) |
| blindness, cortical | Total loss of vision in all or part of the visual field due to a lesion in the striate area, characterised by the patient's subjective unawareness of his disability and the absence of cortical functions of vision, with the subcortical functions intact. (12 Dec 1998) |
| canine hereditary blindness | An autosomal dominant condition seen in dogs of the collie and several other breeds. (05 Mar 2000) |
| river blindness | Ocular complications, such as keratitis, iridocyclitis, or retrobulbar neuritis, caused by the microfilariae of Onchocerca volvulus. Synonym: river blindness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mind blindness | Visual agnosia for objects. The subjet sees the object, but cannot identify it; due to a lesion in area 18 of the occipital cortex. Synonym: object blindness, psychanopsia, psychic blindness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colour blindness | A sex-linked inherited condition where there is an inability to distinguish colours. Very few women are colour blind, but up to 10% of all men have some degree of colour blindness. The most common for is red-green colour blindness. The second most common is blue-yellow. Inheritance: sex-linked (X chromosome). (27 Sep 1997) |
| moon blindness | An acute iridocyclitis of horses, involving one or both eyes; it subsides only to recur at intervals of varying length and usually ends in blindness; the cause is uncertain but some have associated it with leptospires; does not appear to be contagious. Synonym: moon blindness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| music blindness | Loss of the ability to read music. (27 Sep 1997) |
| cortical blindness | Loss of sight due to an organic lesion in the visual cortex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| word blindness |
visual aphasia: inability to perceive written words
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