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Abbreviation |
Interpretation |
| W | water |
| wife | |
| widow | |
| wound | |
| watch | |
| week | |
| weight | |
| WA | when awake |
| wide awake | |
| while awake | |
| water | |
| white adult | |
| work of adhesion | |
| with assistance | |
| W&A | weakness and atrophy |
| WAB | Western Aphasia Battery |
| WAC | water absorption capacity |
| wholesale acquistion cost | |
| weak affinity chromatography | |
| WAF | weakness, atrophy, and fasciculation |
| white adult female | |
| WAM | white adult male |
| WAP | wandering atrial pacemaker |
| whey acid protein | |
| WARI | wheezing associated respiratory illness |
| WAS | weekly activities summary |
| Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome | |
| WAT | word association test |
| WAZ | weight-for-age Z scores |
| WB | Western Blot |
| weight bearing | |
| whole blood | |
| well-being | |
| work of breathing | |
| wheat bran | |
| WBACT | whole-blood activated clotting time |
| WBAT | weight bearing as tolerated |
| WBC | white blood cells |
| well baby clinic | |
| warm blood cardioplegia | |
| white blood cell count | |
| WBH | whole body hyperthermia |
| whole-blood hematocrit | |
| weight-based heparin | |
| WBI | whole-bowel irrigation |
| whole body irradiation | |
| Weight bearing index | |
| WBN | whole-blood nitrogen |
| well-baby nursery | |
| WBR | whole-body radiation |
| whole brain radiotherapy | |
| whole body retention | |
| WBS | Whole-body scanning |
| Warner-Bratzler shear force | |
| Whole body scintigraphy | |
| weight bearing status | |
| Williams-Beuren Syndrome | |
| Wiedemann-Beckwith syndrome | |
| WBV | whole blood volume |
| whole brain volume | |
| WC | waist circumference |
| wheel chair | |
| ward clerk | |
| Water content | |
| white cells | |
| warm compress | |
| white count | |
| whooping cough | |
| work capacity | |
| WCE | work capacity evaluation |
| white coat effect | |
| whole cell extract | |
| WCS | worst case scenario |
| white clot syndrome | |
| WCT | wide-complex tachycardia |
| WCV | whole cell vaccine |
| within-subject coefficient of variation | |
| WD | well developed |
| wound | |
| well differentiated | |
| Water deficit | |
| whipple's disease | |
| wet dressing | |
| Western diet | |
| walking distance | |
| ward | |
| withdrawal | |
| W/D | warm and dry |
| WDL | well-differentiated liposarcoma |
| within defined limits | |
| well-differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma | |
| WDR | wide dynamic range |
| WE | Wernicke encephalopathy |
| weight excess | |
| wide excision | |
| western encephalomyelitis | |
| wellness education | |
| wound entry | |
| WF | white female |
| wedge factor | |
| Willebrand factor | |
| W/F | white female |
| WFI | water for injection |
| WFL | within functional limits |
| WH | white |
| well hydrated | |
| wound healing | |
| well healed | |
| warm humid | |
| WI | walk-in |
| water intake | |
| wound infection | |
| warm ischemic | |
| weight index | |
| warm ischemia | |
| WIA | wounded in action |
| WID | widow |
| WIP | WASP-interacting protein |
| work in progress | |
| WIT | warm ischemia time |
| WK | week |
| work | |
| Wernicke-Korsakoff | |
| WL | waiting list |
| weight loss | |
| white light | |
| Wood's lamp | |
| wavelength | |
| water load | |
| WLS | weight-loss surgery |
| WM | white male |
| white matter | |
| warm, moist | |
| whole milk | |
| working memory | |
| wall motion | |
| weight maintenance | |
| WMD | weighted mean difference |
| Weapon of Mass Destruction | |
| warm moist dressings | |
| WMI | wall motion index |
| weighted mean index | |
| WML | white matter lesion(s) |
| WMP | weight management program |
| warm moist packs | |
| WN | well nourished |
| West Nile (virus) | |
| WND | wound |
| wilson's disease | |
| WNL | within normal limits |
| WNR | within normal range |
| WO | written order |
| wide open | |
| wash out | |
| weeks old | |
| WOB | work of breathing |
| WPR | written progress report |
| WRBC | washed red blood cells |
| WRF | worsening renal function |
| WRT | with relation to |
| WS | water-soluble |
| ward secretary | |
| wall stress | |
| Waardenburg syndrome | |
| Werner syndrome | |
| WT | weight |
| wild type | |
| waiting time | |
| wall thickness | |
| wilms tumor | |
| wavelet transformation | |
| walking test | |
| weight training | |
| W/U | work-up |
| WV | walking velocity |
| whole virus | |
| WW | watchful waiting |
| wet weight | |
| white woman | |
| weight watchers | |
