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mondofacto - Online Medical Dictionary Category: Health and Medicine > Medical Dictionary Date & country: 26/01/2008, UK Words: 116197

womanish
Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate. ' Thy tears are womanish.' . ' Womanish entreaties.' 'A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish, but audible, strong, and manlike.' (Ascham) Wom'anishly, Wom'anishness. ... Source: Websters Dictionar …

womb
1. The belly; the abdomen. 'And he coveted to fill his woman of the cods that the hogs eat, and no man gave him.' (Wyclif (Luke xv. 16)) 'An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me.' (Shak) ... 2. <anatomy> The uterus. See Uterus. ... 3. The place where anything …

women, working
Women who are engaged in gainful activities usually outside the home. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

women's health
The concept covering the physical and mental conditions of women. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

women's health services
Organised services to provide health care to women. It excludes maternal care services for which maternal health services is available. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

women's rights
The rights of women to equal status pertaining to social, economic, and educational opportunities afforded by society. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

wont
Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used. 'As he was wont to go.' 'If the ox were wont to push with his horn.' (Ex. Xxi. 29) ... Origin: For woned, p. P. Of won, wone, to dwell, AS. Wunian; akin to D. Wonen, OS. Wunn, OHG, wonn, G. Wohnen, and AS. Wund, gewuna, custom, habit; orig. Probably, to take pleasure; cf. Icel. Una to dwell, …

woo
1. To solicit in love; to court. 'Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes The image he himself has wrought.' (Prior) ... 2. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. 'Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even song.' (Milton) 'I woo the wind That still delays his coming.' (Bryant) ... Origin: OE. Wowen, woen, AS. Wgian, fr. Wh …

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. …

wood alcohol
Synonym for methyl 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 …

wood charcoal
Synonym for vegetable charcoal ... Charcoal obtained by charring vegetable tissues, especially the wood of willow, beech, birch, or oak. ... Synonym: wood charcoal. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

wood naphtha
Synonym for methyl 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 …

wood spirit
Synonym for methyl 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 …

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.< …

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, Paul
<person> ... See: Wood units. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Wood, Robert
<person> U.S. Physicist, 1868-1955. ... See: Wood's glass, Wood's lamp, Wood's light. ... (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°; used to detect by fluorescence hairs infected with species M. Audouinii, M. Canis, var. Distortum, or M. Ferrugineum, producing greenish-yellow fluorescence. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Wood's light
Ultraviolet light produced by Wood's lamp. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

woodbine
<botany> A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle. ... The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia. 'Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture.' (Shak) ... Origin: AS. Wudubind black ivy; so named as binding about trees. See Wood, and Bind. ... Source: Websters D …

woodbury-type
1. A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing. ... 2. A print from such a plate. …

woodchat
<ornithology> Any one of several species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to the genera Ianthia and Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath. ... A European shrike (Enneoctonus rufus). In the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings …

woodcock
1. <ornithology> Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds. ... The most important species are the European (Scolopax rusticola) and the American woodcock (Philohela minor), which agree very closely …

woodcutter's encephalitis
Synonym for tick-borne encephalitis ... 1. (Central European subtype) tick-borne meningoencephalitis caused by a flavivirus closely related to the virus causing the Far Eastern type; it is transmitted by Ixodes ricinus, also by infected raw milk, especially that of goats. ... Synonym: biundulant meningoencephalitis, Central European tick-borne fever, …

wooded swamp
<botany> A wetland dominated by trees, a forested wetland. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

wooden
1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding. ... 2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. 'When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it.' (Collier) 'His singing was, I confess, a little wooden.' (G. MacDonald) Wooden spoon. ... <engineerin …

wooden resonance
Synonym for vesiculotympanitic resonance ... A peculiar, partly tympanitic, partly vesicular sound, obtained on percussion in cases of pulmonary emphysema. ... Synonym: bandbox resonance, wooden resonance. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

wooden tongue of cattle
Synonym for actinobacillosis ... A disease characterised by suppurative and granulomatous lesions in the respiratory tract, upper alimentary tract, skin, kidneys, joints, and other tissues. Actinobacillus lignieresii infects cattle and sheep while a. Equuli infects horses and pigs. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

wooden-shoe heart
Synonym for coeur en sabot ... <radiology> The radiographic configuration of the heart in the tetralogy of Fallot; the elevated apex gives a silhouette like that of a wooden shoe ... Synonym: sabot heart, wooden-shoe heart. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

woodland
Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber. 'Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again.' (Pope) 'Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended.' (Bancroft) ... Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest; syl …

woodman
1. A forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester. ... 2. A sportsman; a hunter. '[The duke] is a better woodman than thou takest him for.' (Shak) ... 3. One who cuts down trees; a woodcutter. 'Woodman, spare that tree.' (G. P. Morris) ... 4. One who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman. ... Alternative forms: woodsman. ... …

woodpecker
<ornithology> Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidae. ... These birds have the tail feathers pointed and rigid at the tip to aid in climbing, and a strong chisellike bill with which they are able to drill holes in the bark and wood of trees in search of insect larvae upon …

woody
<botany> Of or containing wood or wood fibres, consisting mainly of hard lignified tissues. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

wool
1. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates. ... Wool consists essentially of keratin. ... 2. Short, thick h …

wool ball
A trichophytobezoar formed chiefly of wool and vegetable matter in the stomach of sheep. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

wool fat
Synonym for lanolin ... <physiology> A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally. ... Under the same name, it is prepared from wool for commercial purposes, and forms an admirable basis for ointments, being readily absorbed by the skin. ... Origin: L. Lana …

wool maggot
The larva of one of several species of blowflies which deposit eggs on sheep, causing myiasis. ... Synonym: fleece worm. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

wool wax
Synonym for adeps lanae ... The greasy substance obtained from the wool of the sheep Ovis aries (family Bovidae). Used as an emollient base for creams and ointments. ... Synonym: hydrous wool fat, lanolin, wool wax. ... Origin: L. Fat of wool ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

wool-sorter's disease
Synonym for pulmonary anthrax ... A form of anthrax acquired by inhalation of dust containing Bacillus anthracis; there is an initial chill followed by pain in the back and legs, rapid respiration, dyspnea, cough, fever, rapid pulse, and extreme cardiovascular collapse. ... Synonym: anthrax pneumonia, ragpicker's disease, ragsorter's disease, rag-sor …

wool-sorter's pneumonia
Synonym for pulmonary anthrax ... A form of anthrax acquired by inhalation of dust containing Bacillus anthracis; there is an initial chill followed by pain in the back and legs, rapid respiration, dyspnea, cough, fever, rapid pulse, and extreme cardiovascular collapse. ... Synonym: anthrax pneumonia, ragpicker's disease, ragsorter's disease, rag-sor …

Woolf-Lineweaver-Burk plot
Synonym for double-reciprocal plot ... <statistics> A graph made to analyse how fast an enzyme can convert its substrate into its product, depending on how much substrate is present (its concentration) and to determine its maximum speed (after which the enzyme does not get any faster no matter how high the concentration of substrate gets), cal …

Woolf, B
<person> 20th-century British biochemist. ... See: Woolf-Lineweaver-Burk plot. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

woolly
1. Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece. ... 2. Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. 'My fleece of woolly hair.' ... 3. Clothed with wool. 'Woolly breeders.' ... 4. <botany> Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool. ... <zoology> Woolly bear, the hairy larva of several species of bombycid moths. The mos …

woolly hair
Tightly coiled hair, oval in cross-section, with the texture of wool. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

woolly-hair nevus
A circumscribed patch of fine, curly hair in an otherwise normal scalp appearing during childhood and enlarging for a period of 2 to 3 years; autosomal dominant inheritance. There is another, mostly sporadic form that may be autosomal recessive. ... Synonym: allotrichia circumscripta. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Woolner, Thomas
<person> English sculptor, 1826-1892. ... See: Woolner's tip. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Woolner's tip
Synonym for tip of auricle ... A point projecting upward and posteriorly from the free outcurved margin of the helix a little posterior to its upper end. ... Synonym: apex auriculae, apex satyri, Woolner's tip. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

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; Wordin …

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 blindness
<neurology> Loss of the ability to understand printed words or sentences ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

word deafness
Synonym for auditory aphasia ... 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) ...

wordprocessor's cramp
A dystonia that affects the muscles of the hand and sometimes the forearm and only occurs during typing or wordprocessing. Similar focal dystonias have also been called writer's cramp, pianist's cramp, musician's cramp, and golfer's cramp. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

Woringer-Kolopp disease
A benign localised form of lymphoma with solitary or closely grouped cutaneous tumours consisting of predominantly epidermal infiltration of mononuclear cells resembling those found in mycosis fungoides. ... Synonym: pagetoid reticulosis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Woringer, M
<person> 20th century French dermatologist. ... See: Woringer-Kolopp disease. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

work
<chemistry> Energy transferred by mechanical means, force acting over a distance. For chemical systems the sign for work is positive, if work is done on the system and negative, if work is done by the system. An example is the expansion of a gas against the external, atmospheric pressure. In this case work is negative, because it is done by t …

work capacity evaluation
Assessment of physiological capacities in relation to job requirements. It is usually done by measuring certain physiological (e.g., circulatory and respiratory) variables during a gradually increasing workload until specific limitations occur with respect to those variables. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

work of breathing
Respiratory muscle contraction during inspiration. The work is accomplished in three phases: that required to expand the lungs against its elastic forces (lung compliance work), that required to overcome the viscosity of the lung and chest wall structures (tissue resistance work), and that required to overcome airway resistance during the movement …

work schedule tolerance
Physiological or psychological effects of periods of work which may be fixed or flexible such as flexitime, work shifts, and rotating shifts. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

work simplification
The construction or arrangement of a task so that it may be done with the greatest possible efficiency. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

worker
1. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. 'Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity.' (Shak) ... 2. <zoology> One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant …

workers' compensation
Insurance coverage providing compensation and medical benefits to individuals because of work-connected injuries or disease. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

working bite
working contacts ...

working distance free
<microscopy> The distance between the front lens of the objective and the coverslip (or uncovered object) when the lens is focused on the specimen. ... (05 Aug 1998) ...

working occlusal surfaces
The surface's of teeth upon which mastication can occur. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

working occlusion
working contacts ...

working out
In psychoanalysis, the state in the treatment process in which the patient's personal history and psychodynamics are uncovered. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

working side
In dentistry, the lateral segment of a dentition toward which the mandible is moved during occlusal function. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

working side condyle
In dentistry, the mandibular condyle on the side toward which the mandible moves in a lateral excursion. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

working through
In psychoanalysis, the process of obtaining additional insight and personality changes in a patient through repeated and varied examination of a conflict or problem; the interactions between free association, resistance, interpretation, and working out constitute the fundamental facets of this process. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

workload
The total amount of work to be performed by an individual, a department, or other group of workers in a period of time. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

workplace
Place or physical location of work or employment. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

workstation
A computer or television monitor with controls for studying and manipulating graphical or clinical images. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

world
1. The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe. 'The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen.' (Rom. 1. 20) 'With desire to know, What nearer might concern him, how this world Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began.' (Milton) ... 2. Any planet …

world health
The concept pertaining to the health status of inhabitants of the world. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

World Health Organisation
<organisation> A United Nations agency dealing with issues concerning health and disease around the globe. For cancer, the W.H.O. Has an interesting programme in prevention and palliative care. ... Acronym: WHO ... (26 Mar 1998) ...

world health organization
A specialised agency of the united nations designed as a coordinating authority on international health work; its aim is to promote the attainment of the highest possible level of health by all peoples. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

worm
1. A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. 'There came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said, This man must needs be a murderer.' (Tyndale (Acts xxviii. 3, 4)) ''T is slander, Whose edge is sharper than the swor …

worm abscess
Abscess due to parasitic worms or in which worms are found. ... Synonym: verminous abscess. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

worm aneurysm
Synonym for verminous aneurysm ... An aneurysm in horses caused by Strongylus vulgaris larvae; usually involving the mesenteric arteries. ... Synonym: worm aneurysm. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

worm bark
Synonym for andira ... The bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of tropical America, used as an emetic, purgative, and anthelmintic. ... Synonym: cabbage tree, worm bark. ... Origin: West Indian native name ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

worm burden
<epidemiology> The number of worms an individual host carries. Sometimes directly measurable ( Ascaris ), sometimes only indirectly (schistosomiasis). ... (05 Dec 1998) ...

Worm, Ole
<person> Danish anatomist, 1588-1654. ... See: wormian bones. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

wormian bones
<radiology> Small ossicles within cranial suture lines, osteogenesis imperfecta, cleidocranial dysostosis, cretinism, idiopathic, Down syndrome, hypophosphatasia, Menkes kinky-hair syndrome, progeria, pyknodysostosis ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

wormian bones mnemonic
<radiology> P pyknodysostosis, O osteogenesis imperfecta, R rickets in healing phase, K kinky hair syndrome, C cleidocranial dysplasia, H hypothyroidism / hypophosphatasia, O otopalatodigital syndrome, P primary acro-osteolysis (Hadju-Cheney) / pachydermoperiostosis, S syndrome of Down ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

wormil
1. <zoology> Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble. ... Alternative forms: wormal, wormul, and wornil. ... 2. <vet …

Wormley, Theodore
<person> U.S. Chemist, 1826-1897. ... See: Wormley's test. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Wormley's test
A test for alkaloids, by treating the solution with picric acid or a dilute iodine-potassium-iodide solution, the presence of alkaloids being shown by a colour reaction. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

wormwood
1. <botany> A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genu …

worry
1. To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth. 'A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death; That dog that had his teeth before his eyes, To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood.' (Shak) ... 2. To harass or beset with importunity, or with care an anxiety; to vex; to annoy; to torment; to tease; to …

worse
Of Bad. [OE. Werse, worse, wurse, AS. Wiersa, wyrsa, a comparative with no corresponding positive; akin to OS. Wirsa, OFries. Wirra, OHG. Wirsiro, Icel. Verri, Sw. Varre, Dan. Varre, Goth. Wairsiza, and probably to OHG. Werran to bring into confusion, E. War, and L. Verrere to sweep, sweep along. As bad has no comparative and superlative, worse and …

worship
1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. 'A man of worship and honour.' (Chaucer) 'Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land.' (Spenser) ... 2. Honor; respect; civil deference. 'Of which great worth and worship may be won.' (Spenser) 'Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with th …

worst
Of Bad. [OE. Werst, worste, wurste, AS. Wyrst, wierst, wierrest. See Worse, a. ... Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse. 'Heard so oft in worst extremes.' ' I have a wife, the worst that may be.' (Chaucer) 'If thou hadst not been born the worst of men, Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer. …

wort
<botany> The filtrate of malted grains used as the substrate for the production of beer and ale by fermentation. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

worth
To be; to become; to betide; now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc, in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc, are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc, are equivalent phrases. 'I counsel . . . To let the cat worthe.' (Piers Plowman) 'He worth upon [got upon] his steed …