Medications

What other names is Sweet Bay known by? Bay, Bay Laurel, Bay Tree, Daphne, Grecian Laurel, Laurel, Laurier-Sauce, Laurus nobilis, Mediterranean Bay, Noble Laurel, Roman Laurel, True Bay. What is Sweet Bay? Sweet bay is an herb. The leaves and oil...

Sweet Annie

What other names is Sweet Annie known by? Absinthe Sauvage, Ajenjo Silvestre, Annual Mugwort, Annual Wormwood, Artemisia annua, Artemisia, Artemisinin, Chinese Wormwood, Ching-hao, Herba Artemisiae Annuae, Huang Hua Guo, Qing Hao, Qinghaosu, Sweet W...

Sweet Almond

What other names is Sweet Almond known by? Almond, Almond Extract, Almond Oil, Almendra Dulce, Almendro Dulce, Amande Douce, Amandier à Fruits Doux, Amandier Doux, Amendoa Doce, Amygdala Dulcis, Amygdalus communis var. dulcis, Prunus amygdalus ...

Swamp Milkweed

What other names is Swamp Milkweed known by? Asclepias incarnata, Asclépias Incarnata, Rose-Colored Silkweed, Swamp Silkweed. What is Swamp Milkweed? Swamp milkweed is an herb. The root is used to make medicine. Insufficient Evidence to Rate...

Swallowroot

What other names is Swallowroot known by? Decalepis hamiltonii, Makali Beru, Nannari. What is Swallowroot? Swallowroot is a plant. The root is used to make medicine. Insufficient Evidence to Rate Effectiveness for... Stimulating appetite. How d...

Superoxide Dismutase

What other names is Superoxide Dismutase known by? Orgotein, SOD, Super Dioxide Dismutase, Superoxide dismutase, Superóxido Dismutasa. What is Superoxide Dismutase? Superoxide dismutase is an enzyme found in all living cells. An enzyme is a s...

Sunflower Oil

What other names is Sunflower Oil known by? Aceite de Girasol, Adityabhakta, Corona Solis, Helianthi Annui Oleum, Helianthus annuus, Huile de Tournesol, Marigold of Peru, Sunflower, Sunflower Oils, Sunflower Seed Oil. What is Sunflower Oil? Sunflo...

Sundew

What other names is Sundew known by? Dew Plant, Drosera, Droséra, Drosera anglica, Drosera intermedia, Drosera longifolia, Drosera ramentacea, Drosera rotundifolia, Lustwort, Red Rot, Round-Leafed Sundew, Youthwort. What is Sundew? Sundew is ...

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WF - Medical

WF: Abbreviation for "white female" used by doctors as shorthand when jotting down the results of their physical examination. For example, a WDWNWF = well developed, well nourished white female; WDWNBF = well developed, well nourished black fema...

Wezand - Medical

Wezand: See: Weasand.Last Editorial Review: 2/25/2004 Weasand: 1. The windpipe ( trachea). 2. More loosely, the throat. "Cut his weasand with thy knife." The Tempest, Shakespeare. Weasand is from the Middle English wesand and the Old High German ...

Wet market - Medical

Wet market: A live animal market, a common sight in many areas of the world and a source of influenza viruses and other infectious disease agents for human beings. SARS outbreaks have been traced to wet markets in southern China. Wet markets sell li...

Wet lung - Medical

Wet lung: See: ARDS.Last Editorial Review: 3/28/2004 ARDS: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. A fulminant lung condition in which trauma to the lungs leads to inflammation of the lungs, accumulation of fluid in the alveolar air sacs, low blood o...

Wet brain - Medical

Wet brain: See: Cerebral edema. Last Editorial Review: 2/20/2004 Cerebral edema: Accumulation of excessive fluid in the substance of the brain. The brain is especially susceptible to injury from edema, because it is located within a confined spac...

Western medicine - Medical

Western medicine: Conventional medicine, as distinct for instance from traditional Chinese medicine. Last Editorial Review: 6/26/2004 Conventional medicine: Medicine as practiced by holders of M.D. (medical doctor) or D.O. (doctor of osteopathy) de...

Western blot - Medical

Western blot: A technique in molecular biology, used to separate and identify proteins. Called a Western blot merely because it has some similarity to a Southern blot (which is named after its inventor, the British biologist M.E. Southern). There ...

West Nile virus - Medical

West Nile virus: The mosquito-borne virus that causes West Nile fever. One of the flaviviruses, a family of viruses also responsible for dengue, yellow fever, and tick-borne encephalitis virus. Like the other flaviviruses, the West Nile virus is a p...

West Nile fever - Medical

West Nile fever: A febrile disease caused by the West Nile virus that is transmitted from birds to the common Culex mosquito and then to people. The virus is named after the area it was first found in Uganda. West Nile fever occurs in parts of Afric...

West Nile encephalitis - Medical

West Nile encephalitis: A febrile disease caused by the West Nile virus that is transmitted from birds to the common Culex mosquito and then to people. The virus is named after the area it was first found in Uganda. West Nile fever occurs in parts ...

Wesil - Medical

Wesil: See: Weasand. Last Editorial Review: 2/25/2004 Weasand: 1. The windpipe ( trachea). 2. More loosely, the throat. "Cut his weasand with thy knife." The Tempest, Shakespeare. Weasand is from the Middle English wesand and the Old High German...

Wesand - Medical

Wesand: See: Weasand.Last Editorial Review: 2/25/2004 Weasand: 1. The windpipe ( trachea). 2. More loosely, the throat. "Cut his weasand with thy knife." The Tempest, Shakespeare. Weasand is from the Middle English wesand and the Old High German ...

Werner-His disease - Medical

Werner-His disease: Named for the German physician Heinrich Werner (who did not describe Werner's premature aging syndrome) and the Swiss physician Wilhelm His, Jr. (who did describe the bundle of His in the heart), this is a louse-borne disea...

Welt - Medical

Welt: A red bump, ridge or swelling of unbroken skin raised by a stinging blow or by an allergic reaction to foods, drugs or insect bites, as in hives (urticaria). The word "welt" has a number of nonmedical but related meanings including: in sewin...

Wellcovorin - Medical

Wellcovorin: See: Leucovorin.Last Editorial Review: 6/3/2004 Leucovorin: Folinic acid, the active form of folic acid in the body. Used as an antidote to protect normal cells from high doses of the anticancer drug methotrexate and to increase the ant...

Weil syndrome - Medical

Weil syndrome: A severe form of leptospirosis with liver disease. See: Leptospirosis. Last Editorial Review: 8/4/2003 Medical Author: Benjamin Wedro, MD, FACEP, FAAEM ...

Weight Watchers - Medical

Weight Watchers: Weight Watchers is a diet plan first developed in the 1960s that encourages weight loss by making healthy food and lifestyle choices. The Weight Watchers plan is based upon the idea that dieting is only one part of a healthy li...

Weight loss - Medical

Weight loss: Weight loss is a decrease in body weight resulting from either voluntary ( diet, exercise) or involuntary (illness) circumstances. Most instances of weight loss arise due to the loss of body fat, but in cases of extreme or severe weight ...

Weighing, underwater - Medical

Weighing, underwater: See: Underwater weighing.Last Editorial Review: 12/28/2003 Underwater weighing: A method for determining the lean body mass. This method weighs a person underwater and then calculates the lean body mass (muscle) and body fat. T...

Weighing, hydrostatic - Medical

Weighing, hydrostatic: See: Underwater weighing.Last Editorial Review: 12/28/2003 Underwater weighing: A method for determining the lean body mass. This method weighs a person underwater and then calculates the lean body mass (muscle) and body fat. ...

Wegener's granulomatosis - Medical

Wegener's granulomatosis: An uncommon type of inflammation of small arteries and veins ( vasculitis) that classically involves the vessels supplying the tissues of the lungs, nasal passages (sinuses), and kidneys. Wegener's granulomatosis us...