[ W ]

• W  dominant spotting [mouse]; energy; section modulus; a series of small triangular incisions in plastic surgery [plasty]; tryptophan; tungsten [Ger. Wolfram]; wakefulness; ward; water; watt; Weber [test]; week; wehnelt; weight; white; widowed; width; wife; Wilcoxon rank sum statistic; Wistar [rat]; with; word fluency; work; wound
• W3  World Wide Web
• w  velocity (m/s); water; watt; while; with
• W+  weakly positive
• WA  when awake; white adult; Wiskott-Aldrich [syndrome]
• W/A  watt/ampere
• W&A  weakness and atrophy
• WAAT  Warfarin Plus Aspirin vs Aspirin Trial
• WAB  Western Aphasia Battery
• WACS  Women's Atherosclerosis Cardiovascular Study
• WAF  weakness, atrophy, and fasciculation; white adult female
• WAFUS  Warfarin Anticoagulation Follow-up Study
• WAGR  Wilms tumor, aniridia, genitourinary abnormalities, and mental retardation
• WAI  Web Accessibility Initiative
• WAIS  Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale; Western Angiographic and Interventional Society; wide area information server; Workplace Advocacy Information System
• WAIS-R  revised Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
• WAK  wearable artificial kidney
• WALK  Walking with Angina-Learning Is the Key [program]
• WALV  Wallal virus
• WAM  white adult male; work area model; worksheet for ambulatory medicine
• WAMMI  Website Analysis and Measurement Inventory [Ireland]
• WAN  wide area network
• WANTO  WEB-Aided Nursing the Old Information System
• WANV  Wanowrie virus
• WAP  wandering atrial pacemaker; whey acid protein; wireless application protocol [telemedicine]
• WAR  Wasserman antigen reaction; without additional reagents
• WARCRY  Wegener and Related Diseases Compassionate Regimen Yield [study]
• WARDS  Welfare of Animals Used for Research in Drugs and Therapy
• WARF  warfarin [Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation]
• WARIS  Warfarin Reinfarction Study
• WARIS II  Warfarin-Aspirin Reinfarction Study-Norwegian
• WARSS  Warfarin-Aspirin Recurrent Stroke Study
• WARV  Warrego virus
• WAS  weekly activities summary; Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
• WASH  Warfarin-Aspirin Study of Heart Failure
• WASID  Warfarin-Aspirin Symptomatic Intracranial Disease [study]
• WASP  Weber Advanced Spatial Perception [test]; Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein
• Wass  Wasserman [reaction]
• WAT  word association test
• WATCH  Warfarin Antiplatelet Trial in Chronic Heart Failure; Worcester-area Trial for Counseling in Hyperlipidemia
• WATSMART  Waterloo Spatial Motion Analysis and Recording Technique
• WAVE  Women's Angiographic Vitamin and Estrogen [trial]
• WB  waist belt; washable base; washed bladder; water bottle; Wechsler-Bellevue [Scale]; weight-bearing; well baby; Western blot [assay]; wet bulb; whole blood; whole body; Willowbrook [virus]; Wilson-Blair [agar]
• Wb  weber; well-being
• WBA  wax bean agglutinin; Western blot assay; whole body activity
• Wb/A  webers/ampere
• WBAPTT  whole blood activated partial thromboplastin time
• WBC  well baby care/clinic; white blood cell; white blood cell count; whole blood cell count
• WBCT  whole-blood clotting time
• WBDC  whole-body digital scanner
• WBE  whole-body extract
• WBF  whole-blood folate
• WBGT  wet bulb global temperature
• WBH  whole-blood hematocrit; whole-body hyperthermia
• WBI  Web-based instruction [telemedicine]; whole bowel irrigation
• WBLT  Watson-Barker Listening Test
• Wb/m²  weber per square meter
• WBMP  wireless bitmap [telemedicine]
• WBN  whole-blood nitrogen
• WBPTT  whole-blood partial thromboplastin time
• WBR  whole-body radiation
• WBRT  whole-blood recalcification time; whole breast radiation therapy
• WBS  Wechsler-Bellevue Scale; whole-blood serum; whole-body scan; Wiedemann-Beckwith syndrome; Williams-Beuren syndrome; withdrawal body shakes
• WBT  wet bulb temperature
• WBV  waterborne virus; whole blood volume; whole brain volume
• WC  waist circumference; ward clerk; warty carcinoma; water closet; Weber-Christian [syndrome]; wheel chair; white cell; white cell casts; white cell count; white child; whooping cough; wild caught [animal]; work capacity; workers' compensation; writer's cramp
• WC´  whole complement
• W/C  watch carefully; wheel chair
• W3C  World Wide Web Consortium
• wc  wheel chair
• WCB  working cell bank
• WCC  Walker carcinosarcoma cells; white cell count; windowed cross correlation
• WCD  Weber-Christian disease
• W-CDMA  wideband-code division multiple access [telemedicine]
• WCE  whole cell extract; work capacity evaluation
• WCGS  Western Collaborative Group Study
• WCL  Wenckebach cycle length; whole cell lysate
• w/cm²  watts per square centimeter
• WCP  well characterized product
• WCPs  whole chromosome paints
• WCS  white clot syndrome; Wisconsin Card Sort [test]; worst case scenario
• WCST  Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
• WCT  wide [QRS] complex tachycardia; word categorization test
• WCTU  Women's Christian Temperance Union
• WCUS  Wiktor Stent and Cutting Balloon Angioplasty Study
• WD  wallerian degeneration; well developed; well differentiated; wet dressing; Whitney Damon [dextrose]; Wilson disease; Winger distribution; with disease; withdraw or withdrawn; without dyskinesia; Wolman disease; wrist disarticulation
• W/D  warm and dry
• Wd  ward
• wd  well developed; wound, wounded
• WDCC  well-developed collateral circulation
• WDG  water-dispersible granule
• WDHA  watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, achlorhydria [syndrome]
• WDHH  watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, and hypochlorhydria
• WDI  warfarin dose index; World Drug Index
• WDL  well-differentiated lymphocytic
• WDLL  well-differentiated lymphatic lymphoma
• WDMF  wall-defective microbial forms
• WDR  wide dynamic range
• WDS  watery diarrhea syndrome; wet dog shakes [syndrome]
• WDSCC  well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma
• WDTC  well-differentiated thyroid cancer
• WDWN, wdwn  well developed and well nourished
• WE  wax ester; Wernicke encephalopathy; western encephalitis; western encephalomyelitis; wound of entry
• We  weber
• WEB  Women's Experience with Battering [scale]
• WECN  Wisconsin Ethics Committee Network
• WEDI  Workshop for Electronic Data Interchange
• WEE  western equine encephalitis/encephalomyelitis
• WEEV  Western equine encephalitis virus
• WEL  wave equivalent length
• WELL-HART  Women's Estrogen/Progestin and Lipid-lowering Hormone Atherosclerosis Regression Trial
• WELLSTENT-CABG  Wellstent European Study on Stenting for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts
• WELV  Weldona virus
• W3-EMRS  World Wide Web Electronic Medical Records System
• WENR  Workgroup of European Nurse Researchers
• WEP  wired equivalent privacy [telemedicine]
• WER  wheal erythema reaction
• WES  wall echo shadow; wall echo sign; work environment scale; wound evaluation scale
• WESDR  Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retinopathy
• WESH  West European Study of Health
• WESSV  Wesselsbron virus
• WEST  Western European Stent Trial; Women's Estrogen for Stroke Trial
• WEXV  Wexford virus
• WF  Weil-Felix reaction; white female; Wistar-Furth [rat]; workflow
• W/F, wf  white female
• WFC  workflow cycle
• WFD  word-finding difficulty
• WFDB  Waveform Database
• WFE  Williams flexion exercise
• WFI  water for injection
• WFL  within function limits
• WFLC  weighted frequency Fourier linear combiner [algorithm]
• WfMS  workflow management system
• WFOT  World Federation of Occupational Therapists
• WFPHA  World Federation of Public Health Associations
• WFR  Weil-Felix reaction; wheal-and-flare reaction
• WFRT  wide field radiation therapy
• WFS  Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome; World Fertility Survey
• WFSL  workflow specification language
• WFT  windowed Fourier transform
• WG  water gauge; Wegener granulomatosis; Wright-Giemsa [stain]
• WGA  wheat germ agglutinin
• WGE  wheat germ extract
• WG-RH  whole genome radiation hybrid task
• WGRV  Wongorr virus
• WGS  whole genome shotgun
• wgt  weight
• WH  well hydrated; Werdnig-Hoffmann [syndrome]; whole homogenate; wound healing
• Wh  watt/hours; white
• wh  white
• w·h  watt-hour
• WHA  warm and humid air; World Health Assembly
• WHAP  Women's Health Australian Project
• WHAS  Women's Health and Aging Study; Women's Heart Attack Study
• WHAT  Worcester Heart Attack Trial
• WHAV  Whataroa virus
• wh ch  wheel chair; white child
• WHCOA  White House Conference on Aging
• WHCR  Wolf-Hirschhorn chromosome region
• WHD  Werdnig-Hoffmann disease
• WHEASE  What Happens Eventually to Asthmatics Sociologically and Epidemiologically? [study]
• WHHHIMP  Wernicke encephalopathy/withdrawal, hypertensive encephalopathy, hypoglycemia, hypoxemia, intracranial bleeding/infection, meningitis/encephalitis, poison/medication
• WHHL  Watanaby heritable hyperlipidemia; Watanaby heritable hyperlipidemic [rabbit]
• WHI  Women's Health Initiative
• WHIMS  Women's Health Initiative Memory Study
• WHIN  Wisconsin Health Information Network
• WHML  Wellcome Historical Medical Library
• WHO  World Health Organization; wrist-hand orthosis
• WHO/ISH  World Health Organization/International Society of Hypertension [survey]
• whp  whirlpool
• WHR  waist:hips girth ratio
• whr  watt-hour
• WHRC  World Health Research Centre
• WHS  Werdnig-Hoffmann syndrome; Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome; Women's Health Study
• WHT  Walsh-Hadamard transform; Warm Heart Trial
• WHTVS  Women's Health Trial Vanguard Study
• WHV  woodchuck hepatic virus
• WHVP  wedged hepatic venous pressure
• WHYMPI  West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory
• WI  human embryonic lung cell line; walk-in [patient]; water ingestion; weaning index; Wistar [rat]; World Wide Web [WWW] intervention
• WIA  wounded in action
• WIBC  Wiggins Interpersonal Behavior Circle
• WIC  walk-in clinic; women, infants, and children
• WICHEN  Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education in Nursing
• WIHS  Women's Interagency Human Immunodeficiency Virus [HIV] Study
• WIL  workflow intermediate language
• WILLOW  Washington Information Looker-upper Layered Over Windows
• WIMP  windows, icons, menus, pointing
• WIN  Wallstent in Native Vessel [study]; Weight Control Information Network; Western Institute of Nursing
• WINS  Wallstent in Saphenous Vein Grafts [study]
• WIPI  Word Intelligibility Picture Identification
• WIR  Workgroup on Immunization Registries
• WIS  Wechsler Intelligence Scale
• WISC  Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
• WISCR  Wisconsin clinical record
• WISC-R  Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised
• WISE  Women's Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation
• WISH  wearable information system for human healthcare
• WIST  Whitaker Index of Schizophrenic Thinking
• WITS  Women and Infants Transmission Study

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