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Waardenburg's Syndrome - Rare, autosomal dominant disease with variable penetrance and several known clinical types. Characte...

WAGR Syndrome - A contiguous gene syndrome associated with hemizygous deletions of chromosome region 11p13. The cond...

Waikavirus - A genus of plant viruses in the family SEQUIVIRIDAE. Transmission is by leafhoppers or APHIDS and de...

Waist Circumference - The measurement around the body at the level of the ABDOMEN and just above the hip bone. The measure...

Waist-Hip Ratio - The waist circumference measurement divided by the hip circumference measurement. For both men and w...

Waiting Lists - Prospective patient listings for appointments....

Wakefulness - A state in which there is an enhanced potential for sensitivity and an efficient responsiveness to e...

Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia - A lymphoproliferative disorder characterized by pleomorphic B-LYMPHOCYTES including PLASMA CELLS, wi...

Walkers - Walking aids generally having two handgrips and four legs....

Walking - An activity in which the body advances at a slow to moderate pace by moving the feet in a coordinate...

Wallerian Degeneration - Degeneration of distal aspects of a nerve axon following injury to the cell body or proximal portion...

Walruses - The family Odobenidae, suborder PINNIPEDIA, order CARNIVORA. It is represented by a single species o...

Wandering Behavior - Moving oneself through space while confused or otherwise cognitively impaired. Patterns include akat...

Wandering Spleen - A congenital or acquired condition in which the SPLEEN is not in its normal anatomical position but ...

War - Hostile conflict between organized groups of people....

War Crimes - Criminal acts committed during, or in connection with, war, e.g., maltreatment of prisoners, willful...

Warfarin - An anticoagulant that acts by inhibiting the synthesis of vitamin K-dependent coagulation factors. W...

Warm Ischemia - A tissue or organ remaining at physiological temperature during decreased BLOOD perfusion or in the ...

Warts - Benign epidermal proliferations or tumors; some are viral in origin....

Wasabia - A plant genus of the family BRASSICACEAE used for its hot peppery root....

Wasp Venoms - Venoms produced by the wasp (Vespid) family of stinging insects, including hornets; the venoms conta...

Wasps - Any of numerous winged hymenopterous insects of social as well as solitary habits and having formida...

Waste Disposal, Fluid - The discarding or destroying of liquid waste products or their transformation into something useful ...

Waste Management - Disposal, processing, controlling, recycling, and reusing the solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes of p...

Waste Products - Debris resulting from a process that is of no further use to the system producing it. The concept in...

Wasting Disease, Chronic - A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (prion disease) of DEER and elk characterized by chronic w...

Wasting Syndrome - A condition of involuntary weight loss of greater then 10% of baseline body weight. It is characteri...

Water - A clear, odorless, tasteless liquid that is essential for most animal and plant life and is an excel...

Water Deprivation - The withholding of water in a structured experimental situation....

Water Intoxication - A condition resulting from the excessive retention of water with sodium depletion....

Water Loss, Insensible - Loss of water by diffusion through the skin and by evaporation from the respiratory tract....

Water Microbiology - The presence of bacteria, viruses, and fungi in water. This term is not restricted to pathogenic org...

Water Movements - The flow of water in enviromental bodies of water such as rivers, oceans, water supplies, aquariums,...

Water Pollutants - Substances or organisms which pollute the water or bodies of water. Use for water pollutants in gene...

Water Pollutants, Chemical - Chemical compounds which pollute the water of rivers, streams, lakes, the sea, reservoirs, or other ...

Water Pollutants, Radioactive - Pollutants, present in water or bodies of water, which exhibit radioactivity....

Water Pollution, Chemical - Adverse effect upon bodies of water (lakes, RIVERS, seas, groundwater etc.) caused by CHEMICAL WATER...

Water Purification - Any of several processes in which undesirable impurities in water are removed or neutralized; for ex...

Water Supply - Source, means, or process of supplying water (as for a community) usually including reservoirs, tunn...

Water-Electrolyte Balance - The balance of fluid in the BODY FLUID COMPARTMENTS; total BODY WATER; BLOOD VOLUME; EXTRACELLULAR S...

Water-Electrolyte Imbalance - Disturbances in the body's WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE....

Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome - A condition caused by overwhelming BACTERIAL INFECTIONS or SEPTICEMIA, leading to HEMORRHAGE and NEC...

Waxes - A plastic substance deposited by insects or obtained from plants. Waxes are esters of various fatty ...

Weaning - Permanent deprivation of breast milk and commencement of nourishment with other food. (From Stedman,...

Weapons - Devices or tools used in combat or fighting in order to kill or incapacitate....

Weapons of Mass Destruction - Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used to destroy large number...

Weather - The state of the ATMOSPHERE over minutes to months....

Webcasts - Content from transmission of live or pre-recorded audio or video via connection or download from the...

Webcasts as Topic - Transmission of live or pre-recorded audio or video content via connection or download from the INTE...

Wechsler Scales - Tests designed to measure intellectual functioning in children and adults....

Wedelia - A plant genus of the family ASTERACEAE. Members contain wedelolactone and wedeloside....

Wedge Argument - An assertion that an action apparently unobjectionable in itself would set in motion a train of even...

Weevils - BEETLES in the family Curculionidae and the largest family in the order COLEOPTERA. They have a mark...

Wegener Granulomatosis - A multisystemic disease of a complex genetic background. It is characterized by inflammation of the ...

Weibel-Palade Bodies - Rod-shaped storage granules for VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR specific to endothelial cells....

Weight Gain - Increase in BODY WEIGHT over existing weight....

Weight Lifting - A sport in which weights are lifted competitively or as an exercise....

Weight Loss - Decrease in existing BODY WEIGHT....

Weight Perception - Recognition and discrimination of the heaviness of a lifted object....

Weight-Bearing - The physical state of supporting an applied load. This often refers to the weight-bearing bones or j...

Weightlessness - Condition in which no acceleration, whether due to gravity or any other force, can be detected by an...

Weightlessness Countermeasures - Techniques and routines designed to prevent or reverse unwanted effects of weightlessness experience...

Weightlessness Simulation - Condition under normal Earth gravity where the force of gravity itself is not actually altered but i...

Weights and Measures - Measuring and weighing systems and processes....

Weil Disease - A severe form of LEPTOSPIROSIS, usually caused by LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR ICTEROHAEMORRHAGIAE...

Weill-Marchesani Syndrome - Rare congenital disorder of connective tissue characterized by brachydactyly, joint stiffness, child...

Werner Syndrome - An autosomal recessive disorder that causes premature aging in adults, characterized by sclerodermal...

Wernicke Encephalopathy - An acute neurological disorder characterized by the triad of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, and disturbanc...

West Indies - Islands lying between southeastern North America and northern South America, enclosing the Caribbean...

West Nile Fever - A mosquito-borne viral illness caused by the WEST NILE VIRUS, a FLAVIVIRUS and endemic to regions of...

West Nile virus - A species of FLAVIVIRUS, one of the Japanese encephalitis virus group (ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, JAPANES...

West Nile Virus Vaccines - Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent infection with WEST NILE VIRUS....

Western Australia - A state in western Australia. Its capital is Perth. It was first visited by the Dutch in 1616 but th...

Western World - A historical and cultural entity dispersed across the wide geographical area of Europe, as opposed t...

Wet Macular Degeneration - A form of RETINAL DEGENERATION in which abnormal CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION occurs under the RETIN...

Wetlands - Environments or habitats at the interface between truly terrestrial ecosystems and truly aquatic sys...

Wettability - The quality or state of being wettable or the degree to which something can be wet. This is also the...

Wetting Agents - A surfactant that renders a surface wettable by water or enhances the spreading of water over the su...

Whale, Killer - The species Orcinus orca, in the family Delphinidae, characterized by its black and white coloration...

Whales - Large marine mammals of the order CETACEA. In the past, they were commercially valued for whale oil,...

Whales, Pilot - The genus Globicephala, in the family Delphinidae, consisting of two species of DOLPHINS. They are m...

Wheat Germ Agglutinin-Horseradish Peroxidase Conjugate - The lectin wheatgerm agglutinin conjugated to the enzyme HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE. It is widely used f...

Wheat Germ Agglutinins - Lectins purified from the germinating seeds of common wheat (Triticum vulgare); these bind to certai...

Wheat Hypersensitivity - Allergic reaction to wheat that is triggered by the immune system....

Wheelchairs - Chairs mounted on wheels and designed to be propelled by the occupant....

Whiplash Injuries - Hyperextension injury to the neck, often the result of being struck from behind by a fast-moving veh...

Whipple Disease - A chronic systemic infection by a gram-positive bacterium, Tropheryma whippelii, mainly affecting th...

Whistleblowing - The reporting of observed or suspected PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT or incompetence to appropriate author...

White Heifer Disease - A congenital reproductive abnormality in white female offspring (heifers) in certain breeds of CATTL...

White Muscle Disease - A myodegeneration most frequent in calves and lambs whose dams have been fed during gestation or lon...

White spot syndrome virus 1 - A species of DNA virus, in the genus WHISPOVIRUS, infecting PENAEID SHRIMP....

Whole Blood Coagulation Time - The time required by whole blood to produce a visible clot....

Whole Body Imaging - The creation of a visual display of the inside of the entire body of a human or animal for the purpo...

Whole-Body Counting - Measurement of radioactivity in the entire human body....

Whole-Body Irradiation - Irradiation of the whole body with ionizing or non-ionizing radiation. It is applicable to humans or...

Whooping Cough - A respiratory infection caused by BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS and characterized by paroxysmal coughing endi...

Widowhood - The state of having lost a marital partner by death....

Wigglesworthia - A genus of gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria in the family ENTEROBACTERIACEAE. They exist only as p...

Wikstroemia - A plant genus of the family THYMELAEACEAE. Members contain daphnoretin and wikstroelides and daphnan...

Wilderness - Environment un-modified by human activity. Areas in which natural processes operate without human in...

Wilderness Medicine - Skills and knowledge required for assessment and treatment of traumatic, environmental, and medical ...

Williams Syndrome - A disorder caused by hemizygous microdeletion of about 28 genes on chromosome 7q11.23, including the...

Williopsis - A genus of ascomycetous yeast in the family Saccharomycetaceae, order SACCHAROMYCETALES. Many specie...

Wills - Legal documents that are declarations of individuals' wishes regarding the disposal of their propert...

Wilms Tumor - A malignant kidney tumor, caused by the uncontrolled multiplication of renal stem (blastemal), strom...

Wind - The motion of air relative to the earth's surface....

Wine - Fermented juice of fresh grapes or of other fruit or plant products used as a beverage....

Winged-Helix Transcription Factors - A subfamily of HELIX-TURN-HELIX DNA-binding proteins that contain a variable length loop adjacent to...

Winteraceae - A plant family of the order Magnoliales, subclass Magnoliidae, class Magnoliopsida. The wood lacks w...

Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome - A rare, X-linked immunodeficiency syndrome characterized by ECZEMA; LYMPHOPENIA; and, recurrent pyog...

Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein - WASP protein is mutated in WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME and is expressed primarily in hematopoietic cell...

Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein Family - A family of microfilament proteins whose name derives from the fact that mutations in members of thi...

Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein, Neuronal - A member of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein family that is found at high levels in NERVE CELLS....

Wissler's Syndrome - A rheumatic syndrome of possibly allergic origin, usually affecting children and adolescents, and ch...

Wisteria - A plant genus of the family FABACEAE. Members contain wistarin, wisteria lectin and wistariasaponin....

Wit and Humor as Topic - The faculty of expressing the amusing, clever, or comical or the keen perception and cleverly apt ex...

Witchcraft - An act of employing sorcery (the use of power gained from the assistance or control of spirits), esp...

Withania - A plant genus of the family SOLANACEAE. Members contain withanolides. Withania somnifera is the sour...

Withanolides - Ergostane derivatives of 28 carbons with oxygens at C1, C22, and C26 positions and the side chain cy...

Withholding Treatment - Withholding or withdrawal of a particular treatment or treatments, often (but not necessarily) life-...

Wnt Proteins - Wnt proteins are a large family of secreted glycoproteins that play essential roles in EMBRYONIC AND...

Wnt1 Protein - A proto-oncogene protein and member of the Wnt family of proteins. It is expressed in the caudal MID...

Wnt2 Protein - A proto-oncogene protein and member of the Wnt family of proteins. It is frequently up-regulated in ...

Wolbachia - A genus of bacteria comprised of a heterogenous group of gram-negative small rods and coccoid forms ...

Wolffian Ducts - A pair of excretory ducts of the middle kidneys (MESONEPHROI) of an embryo, also called mesonephric ...

Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome - A form of ventricular pre-excitation characterized by a short PR interval and a long QRS interval wi...

Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome - A syndrome caused by large deletions of the telomereic end of the short arm of CHROMOSOME 4 (4p) in ...

Wolfram Syndrome - A hereditary condition characterized by multiple symptoms including those of DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIA...

Wolinella - A genus of gram-negative, anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria isolated from the bovine RUMEN, the human g...

Wolman Disease - The severe infantile form of inherited lysosomal lipid storage diseases due to deficiency of acid li...

Wolves - Any of several large carnivorous mammals of the family CANIDAE that usually hunt in packs....

Women - Human adult females as cultural, psychological, sociological, political, and economic entities....

Women, Working - Women who are engaged in gainful activities usually outside the home....

Women's Health - The concept covering the physical and mental conditions of women....

Women's Health Services - Organized services to provide health care to women. It excludes maternal care services for which MAT...

Women's Rights - The rights of women to equal status pertaining to social, economic, and educational opportunities af...

Wood - A product of hard secondary xylem composed of CELLULOSE, hemicellulose, and LIGNANS, that is under t...

Woodfordia - A plant genus of the family LYTHRACEAE. Members contain woodfordins....

Wool - The hair of SHEEP or other animals that is used for weaving....

Word Association Tests - Lists of words to which individuals are asked to respond ascertaining the conceptual meaning held by...

Word Processing - Text editing and storage functions using computer software....

Work - Productive or purposeful activities....

Work Capacity Evaluation - Assessment of physiological capacities in relation to job requirements. It is usually done by measur...

Work of Breathing - RESPIRATORY MUSCLE contraction during INHALATION. The work is accomplished in three phases: LUNG COM...

Work Schedule Tolerance - Physiological or psychological effects of periods of work which may be fixed or flexible such as fle...

Work Simplification - The construction or arrangement of a task so that it may be done with the greatest possible efficien...

Workers' Compensation - Insurance coverage providing compensation and medical benefits to individuals because of work-connec...

Workflow - Description of pattern of recurrent functions or procedures frequently found in organizational proce...

Workload - The total amount of work to be performed by an individual, a department, or other group of workers i...

Workplace - Place or physical location of work or employment....

World Health - The concept pertaining to the health status of inhabitants of the world....

World Health Organization - A specialized agency of the United Nations designed as a coordinating authority on international hea...

World War I - Global conflict primarily fought on European continent, that occurred between 1914 and 1918....

World War II - Global conflict involving countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America that occurred between...

Wound Healing - Restoration of integrity to traumatized tissue....

Wound Infection - Invasion of the site of trauma by pathogenic microorganisms....

Wounds and Injuries - Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without ...

Wounds, Gunshot - Disruption of structural continuity of the body as a result of the discharge of firearms....

Wounds, Nonpenetrating - Injuries caused by impact with a blunt object where there is no penetration of the skin....

Wounds, Penetrating - Wounds caused by objects penetrating the skin....

Wounds, Stab - Penetrating wounds caused by a pointed object....

Wrestling - A sport consisting of hand-to-hand combat between two unarmed contestants seeking to pin or press ea...

Wrist - The region of the upper limb between the metacarpus and the FOREARM....

Wrist Injuries - Injuries to the wrist or the wrist joint....

Wrist Joint - The joint that is formed by the distal end of the RADIUS, the articular disc of the distal radioulna...

Writing - The act or practice of literary composition, the occupation of writer, or producing or engaging in l...

Wrongful Life - In civil law a cause of action which alleges that a defendant has wrongfully caused a child to be bo...

WT1 Proteins - Isoforms encoded by the WT1 Wilms tumor suppressor gene (GENES, WILMS TUMOR) and produced by alterna...

Wuchereria - A genus of filarial nematodes....

Wuchereria bancrofti - A white threadlike worm which causes elephantiasis, lymphangitis, and chyluria by interfering with t...