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I put this list together as a student, so you will see some things in here that are quite simple. You will also see some words with *s/l* beside them. These are sound-alikes. I put them in the list, the way it sounded to me, then in the right column I entered the word the way it should be, or entered a possible alternative. There are prefixes, suffixes, drugs, abbreviations,etc. Some words have definitions, some do not. Please let me know if you run across any errors and I will correct them.
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| Word or Root | Definition |
| w.a. | while awake |
| waldorf abscess *s/l* | walled-off |
| Warfarin | drug |
| wasting syndrome | |
| WBC | White Blood Count |
| WDWN | well-developed and well-nourished |
| weak pulse | weak pulse |
| Weber test | |
| wedge resection | removal of a portion of liver to determine presence of metastatic disease |
| Wegener's granulomatosis | |
| weight bearing | =weightbearing *one word* |
| Weitlaner | type of retractor |
| Wellferon *interferon alfa* | |
| Wenckebach phenomenon | |
| wenky-boc *s/l*col- | Wenckebach phenomenon |
| Wernicke's encephalopathy | vitamin B1 *thiamin* deficiency, cause of demntia |
| Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome | alcohol related dementia |
| western water hemp | allergen |
| wet smear | |
| Wharton's duct | |
| wheal | localized skin edema, such as a hive |
| wheeze | whistling breath sound |
| wheezing | the sound made by air moving through partially obstructed airways. |
| Whipple procedure | pancreaticojejunostomy |
| whistling rhonchi | |
| whitis *s/l* | Wydase ex: Lidocaine Whydase |
| white oak bark | herbal medicine |
| white stain *s/l* | Wright's stain |
| whizzened | Correct spelling - see wizened |
| whytone *s/l* | Hytone *hydrocortisone - anti-inflammatory* |
| wild alum root | herbal medicine |
| wild cherry bark | herbal medicine |
| wild yam | herbal medicine |
| Willis, circle of | re:head/brain |
| win *s/l* | wen (an epidermal cyst) |
| within | deep/internal |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, or wrinkled as a result of aging or failing vitality |
| wk | week |
| WNL | within normal limits |
| wood betony | herbal medicine |
| Wood light | an ultraviolet lamp under which certain fungi of the skin or hair fluoresce |
| woodruff | herbal medicine |
| word salad | refers to incoherent speech |
| workaday | suited for working days |
| Wright peak flow | |
| Wright's stain | |
| Wt | weight |
| Whydase | |
| wyethcci-779 protocol | Wyeth CCI-779 |