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mondofacto - Online Medical Dictionary
Category: Health and Medicine > Medical Dictionary
Date & country: 26/01/2008, UK
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Winterbottom, Thomas<person> English physician, 1765-1859. ... See: Winterbottom's sign. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Winterbottom's sign<clinical sign> Swelling of the posterior cervical lymph nodes, characteristic of early stages of African trypanosomiasis; useful for surveys or control of migrations from endemic areas of persons with preclinical infections. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wintergreen<botany> A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. ... In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of Pyrola which in America are called English wintergreen, and shin leaf (see Shin leaf, under Shin) In America, the name wintergreen is given to Gaultheria procumbens, a low evergreen aromatic plant with oval leaves …
wintergreen oilSynonym for methyl salicylate ... Aromatic methyl ester of salicylic acid, produced synthetically or distilled from Gaultheria procumbens (family Ericaceae) or from Betula lenta (family Betulaceae). ... Used as a component of liniments, used externally and internally for the treatment of various forms of rheumatismit produces heat when rubbed into th …
Winternitz, Wilhelm<person> Austrian physician, 1835-1917. ... See: Winternitz' sound. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Winternitz' soundA double-current catheter in which water at any desired temperature circulates. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wintersteiner compound FSynonym for cortisone ... Derived from cortisol and with similar physiological actions. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
Wintersteiner rosettesRosette's found only in retinal embryonic tumours, formed by a group of columnar cells with a peripheral basement membrane arranged in a radial manner around a central cavity, the spokes corresponding to the photoreceptors. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wintersteiner, Hugo<person> Austrian ophthalmologist, 1865-1918. ... See: Wintersteiner rosettes. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wire1. To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors. ... 2. To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads. ... 3. To snare by means of a wire or wires. ... 4. To send (a message) by telegraph. ... Origin: Wired; Wiring. ... 1. To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream. ... 2. To send a …
wire archA wire conforming to the dental arch; used to restore the normal curve to the denture. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wire splintA device to stabilise teeth loosened by accident or by a periodontal condition in the maxilla or mandible; a device to reduce and stabilise maxillary or mandibular fractures by applying it to both jaws and connecting it by intermaxillary wires or rubber bands. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wire-loop lesionThickening of the basement membrane, with fibrinoid staining, of scattered peripheral capillaries in renal glomeruli; characteristic of renal involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus; the appearance of an affected capillary wall resembles a loop used in microbiology. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wiredraw1. To form (a piece of metal) into wire, by drawing it through a hole in a plate of steel. ... 2. Hence, to draw by art or violence. 'My sense has been wiredrawn into blasphemy.' (Dryden) ... 3. Hence, also, to draw or spin out to great length and tenuity; as, to wiredraw an argument. 'Such twisting, such wiredrawing, was never seen in a court of jus …
wiringFastening together the ends of a broken bone by wire sutures. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wirsung, Johann<person> German anatomist in Padua, 1600-1643. ... See: Wirsung's canal, Wirsung's duct. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wirsung's canalSynonym for pancreatic duct ... The excretory duct of the pancreas that extends through the gland from tail to head where it empties into the duodenum at the greater duodenal papilla. ... Synonym: ductus pancreaticus, Hoffmann's duct, Wirsung's canal, Wirsung's duct. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wirsung's ductSynonym for pancreatic duct ... The excretory duct of the pancreas that extends through the gland from tail to head where it empties into the duodenum at the greater duodenal papilla. ... Synonym: ductus pancreaticus, Hoffmann's duct, Wirsung's canal, Wirsung's duct. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wiryResembling or having the feel of a wire; filiform and hard; denoting a variety of pulse. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wiry pulseA small, fine, incompressible pulse. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wis1 protein kinase<enzyme> A map kinase kinase homolog; has homology to the serine-threonine family of protein kinases; genbank u81521 ... Registry number: EC 2.7.10.- ... Synonym: wis1 gene product, wik1 gene product ... (26 Jun 1999) ...
Wis4 protein kinase<enzyme> A map kinase kinase kinase (mapkkk); phosphorylates wis1; genbank y07750 ... Registry number: EC 2.7.10.- ... Synonym: wis4 gene product ... (26 Jun 1999) ...
wisdom tooth<dentistry> Another name for the third molar. ... (08 Jan 1998) ...
wise1. Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned. 'They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.' (Jer. Iv. 22) ... 2. Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means f …
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome<haematology, syndrome> An sex-linked genetic disorder occurring in male children that is characterised by thrombocytopenia, eczema, melena and susceptibility to bacterial infections due to severe immunodeficiency (both cell-mediated and IgM production). Associated with increased incidence of leukaemia. ... Inheritance: sex-linked (X chromosom …
Wiskott, Arthur<person> 20th century German paediatrician. ... See: Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wissler, Hans<person> Swiss paediatrician, *1906. ... See: Wissler's syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wissler's syndrome<syndrome> A rheumatic syndrome of possibly allergic origin, usually affecting children and adolescents, and characterised by high fever, exanthema, arthralgia, leukocytosis, and increased sedimentation rate. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
Wistar, Caspar<person> U.S. Biologist, 1760-1818, after whom the Wistar Institute is named. ... See: Wistar rats. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wistaria<botany> A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers. ... The species commonest in cultivation is the Wistaria Sinensis from Eastern Asia. W. Fruticosa grows wild in the southern parts of the United States. ... Origin: So named after Caspar Wistar, an American anatomist. ... Source: Websters Dict …
wit<psychology> The faculty of expressing the amusing, clever, or comical or the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
witch1. One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, especially. With the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well. 'There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch.' (Wyclif (Acts viii. 9)) 'He …
witch's milkA secretion of colostrum-like milk sometimes occurring in the glands of newborn infants of either sex 3 to 4 days after birth and lasting a week or two; due to endocrine stimulation from the mother before birth. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
witchcraftAn act of employing sorcery (the use of power gained from the assistance or control of spirits), especially with malevolent intent, and the exercise of supernatural powers and alleged intercourse with the devil or a familiar. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
witchery1. Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft. 'Great Comus, Deep skilled in all his mother's witcheries.' (Milton) 'A woman infamous . . . For witcheries.' (Sir W. Scott) ... 2. Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment. 'He never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky.' (Wordsworth) 'The dear, dear witchery of song.' (Bryant) ... Source: Websters Dict …
withdraw1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. 'Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.' (Hooker) ... 2. To take back; to recall or retract; as, to withdraw false charges. ... Origin: With against + draw. ... S …
withdrawal1. <psychology> A pathological retreat from interpersonal contact and social involvement, as may occur in schizophrenia, depression or schizoid avoidant and schizotypal personality disorders. ... 2. <pharmacology> A substance specific organic brain syndrome that follows the cessation of use or reduction in intake of a psychoactive substa …
withdrawal reflexSynonym for flexor reflex ... Flexion of ankle, knee, and hip when the foot is painfully stimulated; the crossed extension reflex occurs in association with it. ... Synonym: defense reflex, nociceptive reflex, withdrawal reflex. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
withdrawal symptomsA group of morbid symptom's, predominantly erethistic, occurring in an addict who is deprived of his accustomed dose of the addicting agent. ... Synonym: abstinence symptoms. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
withdrawal syndrome<syndrome> The development of a substance-specific syndrome that follows the cessation of, or reduction in, intake of a psychoactive substance that the person previously used regularly; e.g., clinical syndrome of disorientation, perceptual disturbance, and psychomotor agitation following the cessation of chronic use of excessive quantities of …
wither1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. 'Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither?' (Ezek. Xvii. 9) ... 2. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin away, as animal bodies. 'This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered.' (Shak) 'There was a man whi …
Withering, William<person> William Withering, the son and grandson of successful physicians, popularised foxglove (Digitalis purpurea, (fairies thimbles), although its proposal to be used for 'the dropsy' (excess body fluid) first appeared in the third London Pharmacopeia in 1677. ... William Withering was a botanist, chemist, musician (bagpipes, flute, harpsic …
withersThe region of the back of an animal, particularly of the horse, which lies between the shoulder blades. ... Origin: A.S. Wither, against ... Fistulous withers, a fistula, caused by bacterial infection, of the withers. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
withhold1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. 'Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him.' (Spenser) ... 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. 'Forbid who will, none shall from me withhold Longer thy offered good.' (Milton) ... 3. To keep; to maintain; to retain. 'To …
within1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors. 'O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.' (Shak) 'Till this be cured by religion, it is as impossible for a man to be happy that is, pleased and contented within himself as it is for a sick man to be at ease.' ( …
withstandTo stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments. 'I withstood him to the face.' (Gal. Ii. 11) 'Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast. The little tyrant of his fields withstood.' (Gray) ... Origin: AS. Withstandan. See With, and Stand.
withy
Made of withes; like a withe; flexible and tough; also, abounding in withes. 'The stream is brimful now, and lies high in this little withy plantation.' (G. Eliot) ... Origin: OE. Withe, wipi, AS. Wiig a willow, willow twig; akin to G. Weide willow, OHG. Wida, Icel. Vija, a withy, Sw. Vide a willow twig, Dan. Vidie a willow, osier, Gr, and probably …
witkop
A favoid condition of the scalp seen in South Africans. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
witzelsucht
A morbid tendency to pun, make poor jokes, and tell pointless stories, while being oneself inordinately entertained thereby. ... Origin: Ger. Witzeln, to affect wit, + Sucht, mania ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wivern
1. A fabulous two-legged, winged creature, like a cockatrice, but having the head of a dragon, and without spurs. ... Alternative forms: wyvern] 'The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its mold warps, its wiverns, and its dragons.' (Sir W. Scott) ... 2. <zoology> The weever. ... Origin: OE. Wivere a serpent, OF. Wivre, guivre, F. Givre, guivre, w …
WNL
Within normal limits. A laboratory test result may for instance be wnl. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
woad
1. <botany> An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria). It was formerly cultivated for the blue colouring matter derived from its leaves. ... 2. A blue dyestuff, or colouring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in …
wobble
In molecular biology, unorthodox pairing between the base at the 5' end of an anticodon and the base that pairs with it (in the 3'-position of the codon); thus, the anticodon 3'-UCU-5' may pair with 5'-AGA-3' (normal or Watson-Crick pairing) or with 5'-AGG-3' (wobble). Wobble pairings can occur between the unusual base hypoxanthine and adenine, ura …
wobble base
The 3' codon base that is less strictly specified in the genetic code. ... See: wobble, wobble hypothesis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wobble hypothesis
<molecular biology> Explains why the base Inosine is included in position 1 in the anticodons of various t RNAs, why many mRNA codon words translate to a single amino acid, why there are appreciably fewer t RNAs than mRNA codon types and why the redundant nature of the genetic code translates into a precise set of 20 amino acids. ... Inosine i …
woe
1. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity. 'Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.' (Milton) '[They] weep each other's woe.' (Pope) ... 2. A curse; a malediction. 'Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?' (South) ... Woe is used in denunciation, a …
Wohlfahrtia
A genus of larviparous dipterous fleshflies (family Sarcophagidae), of which some species' larvae breed in ulcerated surfaces and flesh wounds of humans and animals. Important species include Wohlfahrtia magnifica, a widely distributed obligatory fleshfly whose tissue-destroying maggots invade wounds or head cavities of domestic animals and humans; …
wohlfahrtiosis
Infection of animals and humans with larvae of flies of the genus Wohlfahrtia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander disease
Synonym for juvenile spinal muscular atrophy ... Slowly progressive proximal muscular weakness and wasting, beginning in childhood, caused by degeneration of motor neurons in the anterior horns of the spinal cord; onset usually between 2 and 17 years of age; usually autosomal recessive inheritance. ... Synonym: juvenile muscular atrophy, Kugelberg-We …
Wohlfart, Gunnar
<person> Swedish neurologist, 1910-1961. ... See: Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander disease. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wold
1. A wood; a forest. ... 2. A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not. 'And from his further bank aetolia's wolds espied.' (Byron) 'The wind that beats the mountain, blows More softly round the open wold.' (Tennyson) ... Origin: OE. Wold, wald, AS. Weald, wald, a wood, forest; akin to OFries. & OS. Wald, D. Woud, G. Wald, …
wolf
Origin: OE. Wolf, wulf, AS. Wulf; akin to OS. Wulf, D. & G. Wolf, Icel. Ulfr, Sw. Ulf, Dan. Ulv, Goth. Wulfs, Lith. Vilkas, Russ. Volk', L. Lupus, Gr. Lykos, Skr. Vrika; also to Gr. 'elkein to draw, drag, tear in pieces. Cf. Lupine, Lyceum. ... 1. <zoology> Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Can …
Wolf Parkinson White syndrome
<cardiology, syndrome> Abnormal cardiac conduction that occurs by way of an accessory pathway between the atria and the ventricles. Baseline ECG will typically show a short P-R interval and a slurred upstroke of the QRS (delta wave). Tachyarrhythmias are common. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
wolf tooth
A rudimentary first premolar tooth of the horse, usually appearing in the upper jaw. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolf-Orton bodies
Intranuclear inclusion body's seen in cells of malignant neoplasms, especially those of glial cell origin. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolf, A
<person> 20th century U.S. Pathologist. ... See: Wolf-Orton bodies. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolfe graft
A full-thickness skin graft without any subcutaneous fat. ... Synonym: Wolfe-Krause graft. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolfe-Krause graft
Synonym for Wolfe graft ... A full-thickness skin graft without any subcutaneous fat. ... Synonym: Wolfe-Krause graft. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolfe, John
<person> Scottish ophthalmologist, 1824-1904. ... See: Wolfe's method, Wolfe graft, Wolfe-Krause graft. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolfe's method
Synonym for Wolfe graft ... A full-thickness skin graft without any subcutaneous fat. ... Synonym: Wolfe-Krause graft. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolff-Chaikoff block
Blocking of the organic binding of iodine and its incorporation into hormone caused by large doses of iodine; usually a transient effect, but in large doses in susceptible individuals it can be prolonged and cause iodine myxoedema. ... Synonym: Wolff-Chaikoff effect. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolff-Chaikoff effect
Synonym for Wolff-Chaikoff block ... Blocking of the organic binding of iodine and its incorporation into hormone caused by large doses of iodine; usually a transient effect, but in large doses in susceptible individuals it can be prolonged and cause iodine myxoedema. ... Synonym: Wolff-Chaikoff effect. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wolff-parkinson-white syndrome
<syndrome> A form of pre-excitation characterised by a short pr interval and a long qrs interval with a delta wave. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
Wolff, Julius
<person> German anatomist, 1836-1902. ... See: Wolff's law. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolff, Kaspar
<person> German embryologist in Russia, 1733-1794. ... See: wolffian body, wolffian cyst, wolffian duct, wolffian rest, wolffian ridge, wolffian tubules. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolff, Kaspar Friedrich
<person> In 1759 was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at St Petersburg. Was one of the founders of modern Embryology and established the doctrine of the germ layers. ... Wolff's Duct, Wolffian duct. ... Lived: 1733-1794. B. Berlin, d. St. Petersburg, Feb 22nd, 1794. ... (05 Dec 1998) ...
Wolff, Louis
<person> U.S. Cardiologist, 1898-1972. ... See: Wolff-Chaikoff block, Wolff-Chaikoff effect, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolff's law
Every change in the form and the function of a bone, or in its function alone, is followed by certain definite changes in its internal architecture and secondary alterations in its external conformation. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wolffian cyst
A cyst lying in the broad ligaments of the uterus and arising from any mesonephric structures. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wolffian duct
<radiology> MALE, vas deferens, vasa efferentia Female, Gartner duct cyst, hydatid cyst of Morgagni, epoophoron, paroophoron Cf: mullerian (para-mesonephric) duct ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
wolffian duct carcinoma
Synonym for mesonephroma ... A rare tumour of the female genital tract, most often the ovary, formerly considered to be derived from mesonephric rests. Two varieties are recognised: (1) clear cell carcinoma, so called because of its histologic resemblance to renal cell carcinoma, and now considered to be of muellerian duct derivation and (2) an embr …
wolffian rest
Remnants of the wolffian duct in the female genital tract that give rise to cysts; e.g., Gartner's cyst. ... Synonym: mesonephric rest. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wolffian ridge
Synonym for urogenital ridge ... One of the paired longitudinal ridge's developing in the dorsal body wall of the embryo on either side of the dorsal mesentery; the ridge is formed at first by the growing mesonephros and later by the mesonephros and the gonad. ... Synonym: genital fold, wolffian ridge. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wolffian tubules
Synonym for Kobelt's tubules ... Remnants of the mesonephric tubule's in the female, contained within the epoophoron. ... Synonym: wolffian tubules. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolfler, Anton
<person> Bohemian surgeon, 1850-1917. ... See: Wolfler's gland. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolfler's gland
Synonym for accessory thyroid gland ... An isolated mass, or one of several such masses, of thyroid tissue, sometimes present in the side of the neck, or just above the hyoid bone (suprahyoid accessory thyroid gland), or even as low as the arch of the aorta. ... Synonym: glandula thyroidea accessoria, accessory thyroid, prehyoid gland, suprahyoid gla …
wolfram syndrome
<syndrome> Hereditary association of diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, optic atrophy, and neural deafness. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
wolframite
<chemical> Tungstate of iron and manganese, generally of a brownish or grayish black colour, submetallic luster, and high specific gravity. It occurs in cleavable masses, and also crystallized. ... Synonym: wolfram. ... Origin: G, wolframit, wolfram; wolf wolf + rahm cream, soot; cf. G. Wolfsruss wolfram, lit, wolf's soot. ... Source: Websters D …
Wolfring, Emilj von
<person> Polish ophthalmologist, 1832-1906. ... See: Wolfring's glands. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wolhynia fever
Trench fever, a louse-borne disease first recognised in the trenches of world war i, again a major problem in the military in world war II, seen endemically in mexico, n. Africa, e. Europe, and elsewhere. The cause, rochalimaea quintana, is an unusual rickettsia that multiplies in the gut of the body louse. Transmission to people can occur by rubbi …
wolinella
A genus of gram-negative, anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria isolated from the bovine rumen, the human gingival sulcus, and dental root canal infections. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
Wollaston, William
<person> English physician and physicist, 1766-1828. ... See: Wollaston's doublet, Wollaston's theory. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wollaston's doublet
A combination of two planoconvex lenses in the eyepiece of a microscope designed to correct the chromatic aberration. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wollaston's theory
A theory that the semidecussation of the optic nerves at the chiasm is proved by the homonymous hemianopia seen in brain lesions. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
wolman disease
<radiology> Rare, familial xanthomatosis, causes death early in infancy, adrenal calcification, diffuse, punctate calcifications throughout, enlarged, normally shaped adrenals, hepatosplenomegaly ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
Wolman, Moshe
<person> 20th century Israeli neuropathologist, *1914. ... See: Wolman's disease, Wolman's xanthomatosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolman's disease
See: cholesterol ester storage disease. ... Compare: cholesterol ester storage disease. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
Wolman's xanthomatosis
Synonym for cholesterol ester storage disease ... A rare benign adult form of inherited lysosomal lipid storage disease that is due to deficiency of acid lipase. It results in an accumulation of neutral lipids, particularly cholesterol esters, within cells (particularly leukocytes, fibroblasts, and liver cells). It is an allelic variant of wolman di …
wolves
Any of several large carnivorous mammals of the family canidae usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the northern hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
woman
1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person. 'Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible.' (Shak) 'And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman.' (Gen. Ii. 22) 'I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; …
