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Wild type ABeta2M amyloidosis
Wild type ABeta2M amyloidosis, or dialysis-related amyloidosis (Aβ2M), is a β2-microglobulin amyloid disease of long-term dialysis patients, causing carpal tunnel syndrome, bone cysts, and destructive arthropathy.
Wild type ATTR amyloidosis
Wild type ATTR amyloidosis (ATTRwt, senile systemic amyloidosis): acquired amyloidosis from misfolded normal transthyretin, mainly cardiac, onset after 60, male-predominant, often preceded by carpal tunnel syndrome; treated with TTR stabilizers.
Wild water buffalo
Wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee), endangered wild bovid of South and Southeast Asia and progenitor of domestic buffalo; fewer than 4,000 remain, threatened mainly by hybridization with domestic buffalo, hunting, and habitat loss.
Wild Weasel
Wild Weasel, formally Project Wild Weasel, is the US Air Force mission of locating and destroying enemy surface-to-air missile radars, now called SEAD, created in 1965.
Wild Wild Country
Wild Wild Country is a 2018 American documentary series on Netflix, directed by Chapman Way and Maclain Way, chronicling the Rajneeshee commune of Rajneeshpuram in 1980s Oregon.
Wild Wild Punjab
Wild Wild Punjab (वाइल्ड वाइल्ड पंजाब) is a 2024 Hindi Netflix buddy comedy directed by Simarpreet Singh, produced by Luv Ranjan and Ankur Garg, starring Varun Sharma, Sunny Singh, Manjot Singh, and Jassie Gill in a breakup road trip across Punjab; released 10 July 2024, IMDb 6.2, RT 31%.
Wild Wild West
Wild Wild West is a 1999 Warner Bros. steampunk Western action-comedy directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, and Salma Hayek, based on the 1965–1970 CBS series; a critical and commercial misfire that won five Razzies including Worst Picture.
Wild World (song)
"Wild World" is a 1970 Cat Stevens folk-rock song from Tea for the Tillerman, US No. 11, never a UK single; famously covered by Jimmy Cliff (1970), Maxi Priest (1988), and Mr. Big (1993).
Wild yak
Wild yak (Bos mutus, also Bos grunniens mutus), the wild bovine of the Tibetan Plateau at 3,000–5,500 m and ancestor of the domestic yak; IUCN Vulnerable, likely under 15,000 animals, males up to 1,000–1,200 kg, domesticated about 7,300 years ago.
Wild-harvested mushroom commerce
Wild-harvested mushroom commerce is the commercial trade in edible fungi gathered from forests, chiefly morels, chanterelles, boletes, and matsutake, moving from North American and Chinese forests to Europe and Japan.
Wildberries
Wildberries (Вайлдберриз) is a Russian e-commerce marketplace founded in 2004 by Tatyana Bakalchuk, selling catalog clothing at first, now a marketplace with tens of millions of buyers, merged with Russ into RWB in 2024.
Wildboyz
Wildboyz, MTV and MTV2 reality comedy series 2003-2006, Jackass spin-off hosted by Steve-O and Chris Pontius traveling to exotic locations, interacting with wild animals and local cultures across four seasons.
WildBrain
WildBrain Ltd. (formerly DHX Media), Toronto-based Canadian kids and family entertainment company on the TSX (WILD); owns Strawberry Shortcake, Teletubbies, Degrassi; runs WildBrain Studios Vancouver, WildBrain CPLG licensing, and 1,000+ YouTube/FAST/AVOD channels; sold its Peanuts stake to Sony in 2026.
Wildcard character
A wildcard character is a symbol in a search pattern that stands for one or more characters, used in shell globbing, SQL LIKE queries, and regular expressions.
Wildcard DNS record
A wildcard DNS record is a Domain Name System record with an asterisk owner name that lets a name server answer for names not otherwise in the zone.
Wildcat
Wildcat (Felis silvestris), a small wild felid of Europe, Africa, and Asia; also called European wildcat, African wildcat (F. lybica), and Asiatic wildcat. Ancestor group of the domestic cat; main threat is hybridization with free-ranging domestic cats.
Wildcat (2025 film)
Wildcat (2025), originally titled Lioness, is a British action thriller directed by James Nunn, written by Dominic Burns, starring Kate Beckinsale, Lewis Tan, Alice Krige, and Charles Dance; an ex-black ops team reunites for a heist to rescue a kidnapped girl, released November 25, 2025.
Wildcat (DC Comics)
Wildcat, also known as Ted "Wildcat" Grant, is a DC Comics superhero, a champion boxer with no superpowers created by Bill Finger and Irwin Hasen in 1942.
Wildcat Discovery Technologies
Wildcat Discovery Technologies is a San Diego battery materials company, founded in 2006 by Peter G. Schultz, that develops cobalt-free cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
Wildcat strike
A wildcat strike, also called an unofficial strike, is a stoppage undertaken by employees without their union's consent, usually with little notice, leaving workers without legal protections.
Wildcats (film)
Wildcats is a 1986 American sports comedy directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Goldie Hawn as a track coach who takes over a Chicago high school football team.
WildChat
WildChat is a public dataset of real-world user–ChatGPT conversations, collected from 2023 through consenting users and originally released with about 1 million conversations in 68 languages.
Wildchild (album)
Wildchild (WILDCHILD) is Alex Warren's second studio album, released August 28, 2026 on Atlantic; 13 tracks, 38:27, produced by Adam Yaron, with John Mayer guesting on the title track about Warren's late father.
Wilde (film)
Wilde (1997) is a British biographical drama directed by Brian Gilbert, starring Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde and Jude Law as Lord Alfred Douglas, based on Richard Ellmann's 1987 biography, released in the US May 1, 1998.
Wilde Patera
Wilde Patera is a 75 km wide patera (volcanic crater) on Venus at 21.30° S, 266.30° E, adopted by the IAU in 2000 and named for Irish poet Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (1821–1891).
Wildebeest
Wildebeest (gnu), genus Connochaetes: blue wildebeest (C. taurinus) and black wildebeest (C. gnou), African antelopes. Blue wildebeest run the ~1.3-million-animal Serengeti-Mara migration; black wildebeest is a southern African species of about 18,000.
Wilder Dwight Bancroft
Wilder Dwight Bancroft was an American physical chemist who spent 1895 to 1937 at Cornell University, where he founded and edited the Journal of Physical Chemistry.
Wilder Mind
Wilder Mind is the third studio album by British band Mumford & Sons, released May 4, 2015 on Glassnote. It replaced the band's banjo-driven folk sound with electric guitars, drums, and synths, produced by James Ford with Aaron Dessner, scoring 54 on Metacritic.
Wilder Penfield
Wilder Graves Penfield (1891–1976), Canadian neurosurgeon at McGill; founded the Montreal Neurological Institute (1934) and devised the Montreal procedure, mapping the cortex and homunculi in awake epilepsy patients.
Wilderness
Wilderness: legally designated undeveloped U.S. federal land under the 1964 Wilderness Act; over 111 million acres in 800+ areas of the National Wilderness Preservation System, managed by NPS, BLM, FWS, and Forest Service.