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This document provides definitions for over 100 medical terms beginning with the letter W, ranging from anatomical features like the waist and walk to diseases like whooping cough and conditions like Wilson's disease. Key terms defined include warm-blooded, which describes animals whose body temperature does not fluctuate with the environment, white blood cells which help protect the body against disease, and womb which is where young develop in mammals until birth.

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Medical Dictionary

This document provides definitions for over 100 medical terms beginning with the letter W, ranging from anatomical features like the waist and walk to diseases like whooping cough and conditions like Wilson's disease. Key terms defined include warm-blooded, which describes animals whose body temperature does not fluctuate with the environment, white blood cells which help protect the body against disease, and womb which is where young develop in mammals until birth.

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Medical Dictionary

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Wadding carded cotton or Warm-blooded Homeotherm


wool in shee t s, used for animals whose body
surgical dressings; cotton- temperature does not
wool. fluctuate with environmental
temper- ature - all birds and
Waddle walk with side to
mammals.
side swaying motion.
Warp twist out of shape
Waffle talk unnecessarily or pervert distort.
nonsensically yelp.
Water-borne transmitted,
Waist portion of body as a disease, by drinking
between hips and ribs. water. Wean accustom the
Wal k move on foot at young
ordinary pace. one to food other than
mother’s milk.
Wall-eye leucoma or cornea.
Web any connective tissue
Wall-eyed having divergent thin membranous structure
squint. joining toes of certain
Wall-pressure force animals (duck frog etc.) fine
exerted by cell wall on cell texture spun by spider.
contents, equal and Weep shed tears.
opposite to turgour Wen harmless tumour.
pressure. Wheeze to breath with
Ward room or hall in difficult and noisely.
hospital with number of Whey watery part of sour
beds for patients. milk left after removal of
W
curd in cheese making.
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Whisper to speak in soft, W
- fibro-cartilage cartilage
hushed tone, without
having its matrix permeated
vibration of vocal cords.
with white f ibres, found
Whistle sharp, shrill sound interposed between bones
made by forcing air through in all small joints and
rounded and nearly closed lining articular cavities.
tips.
- fibrous tissue connective
White colour or hue
tissue composed of bundles
resulting from perfect
of white fibres usually
commingling of all rays of
running in some definite
spectrum colour of milk or
direction; helps to form lig
snow.
aments and tendons.
- arsenic arsenious
trioxide Whit es leuc orrhea or
blennorrhea.
(As2 O3 ); white crystalline
active poison containing 75 Whitlow abcess on finger
percent arsenic. especially around nail.
- blood corpuscles (WBCs) Whoop loud eager cry or
leucocytes; colourless shout.
blood cells found in
vertebrates, larger and less Whooping cough infectious
numerous than red blood and epidemic disease of
corpuscles (6000 to 9000 mucous membrane lining
per cubic millimetre of air passage
blood), capable of characterised by
amoeboid movement, these conclusive coughing with
protect the body against loud noise or indrawing of
various diseases by breath; common in children.
devouring bacteria and Whorl turn of spiral cochlea
producing antibodies; have of ear.
short life span and are
W
being continuously
produced in myeloid tissue
of red marrow.
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Wilms’ tumour congenital,


Woman favoid condition of W
malignant, kidney tumour,
scalp, comm on in South
usually affecting children
Africans.
and infants.
Woman adult f emale of
Wilson’s disease hereditary
human race.
disorder of faulty copper
metabolism, associated with Womb uterus organ
degenerative changes in wherein young ones of
central nervous system and mammals (including
liver. human beings) are
developed and kept till birth.
Windage injury of internal
organ. Wound injury to any tissue
of body; surgical incision.
Windpipe trachea.
Wine fermented juice of
grapes (Vitis Vinifera).
Wink to close and open the
eye(s) rapidly.
Wisdom teeth third and
last molars, two in each
jaw; appear between age of
17 and 25 years.
Wish bone fork shaped
bone articulating between
pectoral girdles and
sternum that acts like spring
between two halves of
pectoral girdle.
Withdrawal discontinuation
of addicting agent or
W medication.
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