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Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations

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  • 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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