Taber's Medical Dictionary
- w
- W
- w/v
- w/w
- Waardenburg syndrome
- WADA
- Wada test
- Waddell sign
- Waddell signs
- waddling gait
- wafer
- WAGR syndrome
- waist
- waist circumference
- waist-to-hip ratio
- waiting child
- waiting list, wait list
- waiting time
- wait list
- waived test
- waiver
- wakeful
- wakeful unresponsiveness
- wake-up stroke
- Wald, Lillian
- Waldenström, Jan G.
- Waldenström disease
- Waldenström macroglobulinemia
- wale
- walk
- walker
- Walker-Warburg syndrome
- walk-in clinic
- walking
- walking base
- walking boot
- walking cast
- walking dandruff
- walking epidural
- walking system
- walking velocity
- walking wounded
- Walk Test
- walkway hazard
- wall
- Wallenberg syndrome
- walleye
- Walsh, Mary B.
- Walthard, Max
- Walthard cell rest
- Walthard inclusion
- Walthard inclusions
- wandering
- wandering [specify sporadic or continual]
- wandering abscess
- wandering cell
- wandering kidney
- wandering lens
- wandering liver
- wandering pacemaker
- wandering pain
- wandering rash
- wandering spleen
- Wangensteen drainage
- Wangensteen tube
- Wangiella
- Wangiella dermatitidis
- waning immunity
- warble
- warble fly
- Warburg, Otto H.
- Warburg apparatus
- Warburg effect
- ward
- ward rounds
- warehousemen's itch
- warfarin
- warfarin potassium
- warfarin resistance syndrome
- warfarin sodium
- warfarin sodium anticoagulant
- war gas
- warm abscess
- warm agglutinin
- warm antibody
- warm autoagglutinin
- warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia
- warm-blooded animal
- warm debriefing
- warmed oocyte
- warm ischemia
- warm ischemia time
- warm line
- warm moist dressing
- warm up
- warm-up
- warm zone
- war neurosis
- warrant
- wart
- Wartenberg neurological pinwheel
- Warthin-Starry stain
- warty horn
- wash
- WASH
- washerwoman's itch
- washing
- washing soda
- washout
- wasp
- wasp sting
- waste
- waste product
- wastewater
- wastewater pretreatment
- wasting
- wasting palsy
- wasting paralysis
- watchdog
- watchful waiting
- watch glass
- water
- water bed
- waterborne
- waterborne disease
- water brash
- waterbug
- water cure
- water deficit
- water diffusion
- water dressing
- waterfall plot
- water for injection
- waterfowl
- water-hammer pulse
- Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome
- water intoxication
- water itch
- water moccasin
- water of crystallization
- water of hydration
- water pill
- water pipe
- waters
- watershed
- Waters projection
- water table
- water-trap stomach
- water wart
- watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, hypochlorhydria syndrome
- Watson, Margaret Jean Harman
- Watson-Schwartz test
- Watsu
- watt
- wattage
- wave
- waveform
- wavefront technology
- wavelength
- wave length
- wave scheduling
- wax
- wax burnout
- waxing-up
- wax pattern
- wax template
- waxy
- waxy cast
- waxy degeneration
- waxy flexibility
- waxy kidney
- WBC
- w-chloroacetophenone
- weak
- weakness
- wealth shock
- wean
- weaning from ventilator support
- weaning readiness screen
- weanling
- weanling diarrhea
- weaponize
- wearable
- wear and care practice
- wear and care regimen
- wear facet
- wear pattern
- wear schedule
- web
- web-based
- web-based triage
- webbed
- webbed finger
- webbed neck
- webbed penis
- webbed toes
- Weber, Ernst Heinrich
- Weber, Moritz I.
- Weber-Christian disease
- Weber deception
- Weber paradox
- Weber syndrome
- Weber test
- webinar
- Wechsler, David
- wedge
- wedge filter
- wedge resection
- wedging
- WEE
- WeeFIM
- weekend effect
- weeping
- weeping sinew
- weeverfish
- Wegener granulomatosis, Wegener syndrome
- Wegener syndrome
- Weidel reaction
- Weigert, Carl
- Weigert elastic fiber stain
- Weigert elastic stain
- weight
- weight/volume unit
- weight-based nomogram
- weight bearing
- weight cycling
- weight-for-height
- weighting
- weight in volume
- weight in weight
- weightlessness
- weight-lifter's headache
- weight loss
- weight reduction diet
- weights and measures
- weight traction
- weight velocity
- Weil basal layer
- Weil disease
- Weil-Felix reaction, Weil-Felix test
- Weil-Felix test
- Weill-Marchesani syndrome
- wei qi
- Weir Mitchell treatment
- weismannism
- weld
- well-being committee
- Wellbutrin SR
- Wellens syndrome
- wellness
- wellness diet
- Wells syndrome
- welt
- wen
- Wenckebach, Karel F.
- Wenckebach phenomenon
- wendigo
- Werdnig-Hoffmann disease
- Werdnig-Hoffmann paralysis
- Werdnig-Hoffmann syndrome
- Werlhof disease
- Wermer syndrome
- Werner syndrome
- Wernicke, Carl
- Wernicke area
- Wernicke center
- Wernicke syndrome
- Western blot test
- Western blotting method
- Western diet
- western equine encephalitis
- Western red cedar
- Weston Hurst syndrome
- Westphal-Strümpell pseudosclerosis
- West syndrome
- wet
- wet-and-dry-bulb thermometer
- wet brain
- wet colostomy
- wet compress
- wet-dry pack
- wet gangrene
- wet lung
- wet nurse phenomenon
- wet pleurisy
- wet purpura
- wet-sheet pack
- wetting
- wetting agent
- wet-to-dry dressing
- Wetzel grid
- Weyer acrofacial dysostosis
- Weyers acrofacial dysostosis
- Wharton's jelly
- Wharton jelly
- wheal
- wheal and flare reaction
- wheat
- wheat germ oil
- wheat grass
- Wheatstone bridge
- wheel
- wheelchair
- wheelchair cushion
- wheelchair lap board
- wheelchair lift
- wheelchair turning space
- wheeze
- wheezing
- wheezy bronchitis
- whey
- whiff test
- whippet
- Whipple disease
- Whipple procedure
- whip stitch
- whipworm
- whirlpool bath
- whiskey, whisky
- whisky
- whisper
- whispered pectoriloquy
- whispered voice test
- whispering disease
- whispering resonance
- whistle
- whistleblower
- whistling face syndrome
- Whitaker Index of Schizophrenic Thinking
- white
- white adipose tissue
- white blood cell
- white blood cell cast
- white blood corpuscle
- white-clot syndrome
- white coat hypertension
- white corpuscle
- white-damp
- white dot syndrome
- white fat
- white forelock
- white-grain mycetoma
- white hat bias
- whitehead
- white infarct
- white light
- white light bronchoscopy
- white line
- white matter
- white muscle
- white of egg
- white of eye
- white patch
- white plague
- whitepox
- white pulp
- whites
- white snakeroot
- white sound
- white sponge nevus
- white spots
- white swelling
- white-tail spider
- white thrombus
- whitlow
- Whitmore disease
- Whitmore-Jewett staging system
- WHO
- whole blood
- whole body counter
- whole body CT scanning
- whole body vibrator
- whole exome sequencing
- whole genome sequencing
- whole grain
- whole milk
- whole mount
- whole-mount
- whole pituitary
- wholism
- wholistic health
- whoop
- whooping cough
- WHO pre qualification
- WHO QoL-100
- whorl
- WHS
- WIC
- wick
- Wickham striae
- wick humidifier
- Widal reaction, Widal test
- Widal test
- wide complex tachycardia
- wide range achievement test
- wig
- wild
- wild chamomile
- wild cherry
- wildcrafting
- wildfire
- wild type
- wild-type
- wild yam
- will
- will call prescription management
- Willebrand disease, von Willebrand disease
- Williams-Beuren syndrome
- Williamsia
- Williams syndrome
- Willis, Thomas
- Willis' pancreas
- Willis-Ekbom disease
- Willis pancreas
- willow bark
- Wilson disease
- Wilson-Mikity syndrome
- Winckel disease
- windburn
- windchill
- windigo, wendigo, witigo
- windlass test
- window
- windowing
- window level
- window resection
- window width
- windpipe
- wind up
- wine
- wineglass
- wing
- winged catheter
- winged scapula
- wink
- winking
- winking spasm
- winnable battle
- winter cherry
- winter depression
- Winter formula
- wipe
- wipe sample
- wire
- wired
- wireless capsule endoscopy
- wireless medicine
- wireless observed therapy
- wire ligature
- wire suture
- wiring
- Wirsung, Johann Georg
- wiry pulse
- Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
- wisdom tooth
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
- WISQARS
- witch's milk
- witch hazel
- Withania somnifera
- withdrawal
- withdrawal delirium
- withdrawal from care
- withdrawal of care, withdrawal from care
- withdrawal reflex
- withdrawal symptom
- withdrawal syndrome
- withhold
- with-the-rule astigmatism
- witigo
- witkop
- Witkop syndrome
- witness
- Witzel jejunostomy
- witzelsucht
- WMS
- WNL
- wobble
- wobble board
- Wobe-Mugos E
- Wohlfahrtia
- Wohlfahrtia magnifica
- Wohlfahrtia opaca
- Wohlfahrtia vigil
- Wolbachia
- Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
- Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
- wolfram
- wolfsbane
- Wolhynia fever
- Wolman disease
- WOMAC
- woman
- womb
- Women's Health Initiative
- Wonderlic Personnel Test
- Wood's filter
- Wood's rays
- wood alcohol
- Wood lamp
- Wood light
- wood pulp
- woodruff
- wood sugar
- wood tick
- woody nightshade
- woolly hair syndrome
- woolsorter's disease
- word fluency test
- word salad
- word spurt
- work
- workaholic
- workaround
- work capacity evaluation
- work conditioning
- worker role interview
- workers' compensation
- work-family balance
- workflow
- working articulation
- working bite
- working diagnosis
- working distance
- working occlusion
- working through
- workload
- work of breathing
- workout
- workup
- World Federation of Athletic Training and Therapy
- World Federation of Occupational Therapists
- World Health Organization
- World Health Organization analgesic ladder
- worm
- worm abscess
- wormian bone
- wormwood
- worried well
- wound
- wound ballistics
- wound botulism
- wound decontamination
- wound disruption
- wound healing
- wound ostomy continence nurse
- wound VAC
- woven bone
- wP
- W-plasty
- wrap
- Wright maneuver
- wrinkle
- wrinkle test
- Wrisberg, Heinrich August
- Wrisberg ganglion
- wrist
- wristband
- wrist-driven flexor hinge hand splint
- wrist ganglion
- wrist unit
- writer's cramp
- writing
- writing hand
- writing therapy
- written treatment agreement
- wrongful birth
- wrongful conception
- wrongful death
- wrongful life
- wryneck
- wry neck
- WS
- WSW
- wt
- Wuchereria
- Wuchereria bancrofti
- Wuchereria malayi
- wuchereriasis
- wu-ling-san
- Wunderlich syndrome
- wye
- Wymox