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Would You Marry Me? (TV series)
Would You Marry Me? (TV series) is a 2025 South Korean romantic comedy series. It follows a designer and a bakery heir who enter a 90-day fake marriage.
Would You Rather (film)
Would You Rather is a 2012 American psychological horror thriller directed by David Guy Levy, starring Brittany Snow and Jeffrey Combs, released theatrically February 8, 2013, about a deadly dinner-party game.
Wouldn't It Be Nice
"Wouldn't It Be Nice" is a Beach Boys song written by Brian Wilson, Tony Asher, and Mike Love; it opens Pet Sounds (May 1966), was a July 1966 single with God Only Knows, peaked at US No. 8, and differs from any same-titled work.
Wound
Wound: a disruption of tissue integrity from trauma, surgery, or disease; acute wounds heal through hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling, while chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers stall; dressing evidence is weak.
Wound Badge
Wound Badge (Verwundetenabzeichen): German military decoration for wounded soldiers, instituted by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 3 March 1918 in black, silver, and gold classes, renewed in 1939, with a rare 20 July 1944 version for Hitler assassination-attempt victims; still wearable in de-nazified form under German law.
Wound Closure Techniques
Wound closure techniques are the methods used to repair breaks in tissue caused by trauma or to close surgical incisions, using sutures, staples, wound tape, and tissue adhesives.
Wound healing
Wound healing, the body's tissue repair process, proceeds through hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling; scars reach only 80% of original skin strength, and chronic wounds affect over 6 million Americans yearly.
Wound healing assay (cell biology)
The wound healing assay, also called the scratch assay, is a cell biology method that measures how cells migrate to close a gap scratched in a cell layer.
Wound licking
Wound licking: instinctive mammalian behavior of applying saliva to injuries. Saliva carries lactoperoxidase-HOSCN antimicrobials, growth factors, and histatins, but introduces mouth bacteria; veterinary practice prevents licking with Elizabethan collars.
Wound myiasis
Wound myiasis, or traumatic myiasis, is infestation of open wounds or ulcers by dipterous fly larvae, mainly screwworms (Cochliomyia hominivorax, Chrysomya bezziana) and blowflies; treated by larval removal and debridement.
WoundCo Holdings, Inc.
WoundCo Holdings, Inc. is a Delaware health care company formed in 2009, headquartered in Los Angeles, that reported $270.7 million raised in a single equity offering.
Wounded Knee Massacre
Wounded Knee Massacre (December 29, 1890): the US Army 7th Cavalry killed an estimated 150 to over 300 Lakota at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, during the Ghost Dance panic; 20 Medals of Honor were later awarded and remain contested.
Wounded Knee Occupation
Wounded Knee Occupation: 71-day armed takeover of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, by ~200 American Indian Movement activists and Oglala Lakota residents, Feb 27–May 8, 1973; declared the Independent Oglala Nation, demanded treaty enforcement and removal of tribal chairman Richard Wilson.
Wounded Warrior Project
Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is a Jacksonville, Florida 501(c)(3) veterans charity founded in 2003 serving post-9/11 wounded veterans and families at no cost, known for Warrior Care Network, Soldier Ride, the 2016 spending scandal and CEO firings, and current four-star Charity Navigator rating.
Wounds (film)
Wounds (2019) is a psychological horror film by Babak Anvari, adapted from Nathan Ballingrud's novella The Visible Filth, starring Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, and Zazie Beetz; released on Hulu and Netflix in October 2019.
Wounds of Armenia
Wounds of Armenia (Armenian: Վերք Հայաստանի, Verk Hayastani) is a historical novel by Khachatur Abovian, written in 1841 and regarded as the first modern Armenian novel.
Wouri Estuary
The Wouri Estuary is a large mangrove-fringed estuary on Cameroon's Atlantic coast, where the Wouri River discharges near Douala and hosts the country's largest port.
Wourld Tour
The Wourld Tour is The Neighbourhood's 2026 seventh concert tour and first arena-scale world tour, supporting the album (((((ultraSOUND))))) (Warner Records, November 2025). Announced November 3, 2025, it opened March 28, 2026 in Austin and grew to 68 shows, ending December 5 at the Kia Forum.
Wout Boerjan
Wout Boerjan (born 1963) is a Belgian plant biotechnologist, professor at Ghent University and group leader at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, known for discovering caffeoyl shikimate esterase in 2013.
Wout van Aert
Wout van Aert (born 1994, Herentals, Belgium) is a Visma-Lease a Bike cyclist, three-time cyclo-cross world champion (2016-2018), Milan-Sanremo and Paris-Roubaix winner, 2022 Tour green jersey, and rival of Mathieu van der Poel.
Wout Weghorst
Wout Weghorst, Dutch centre forward born 1992 in Borne, 1.97 m; clubs include Wolfsburg, Burnley, Manchester United, Hoffenheim, Ajax, Twente; Netherlands super-sub famous for 2022 World Cup brace vs Argentina and Euro 2024 winner vs Poland.
Wouter Beke
Wouter Beke (born 1974) is a Belgian politician of Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) and a Member of the European Parliament since 2024, chairing the delegation for relations with Southeast Asia and ASEAN.
Wouter de Laat
Wouter de Laat, born 1970, is a Dutch molecular biologist and professor of Biomedical Genomics at UMC Utrecht, known for chromosome conformation capture methods such as 4C.
Wouter Draijer
Wouter Draijer is a Dutch engineer who co-founded SolarMente, a Barcelona company selling rooftop solar by monthly subscription, and served as its CEO from 2019 until 2025.
Wouter H. Moolenaar
Wouter H. Moolenaar is a Dutch cell biologist who led a research group at the Netherlands Cancer Institute from 1988 to 2017, establishing LPA as a growth-factor-like lipid mediator.
Wouter I. Schievink
Wouter I. Schievink is a Dutch-born neurosurgeon and Professor of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles since 1998, known for research on spinal CSF leaks.
Wouter Kellerman
Wouter Kellerman, born in Johannesburg in 1961, is a South African flautist and composer who has won three Grammy Awards and South Africa's Order of Ikhamanga in Gold.
Wouter van Pelt
Wouter van Pelt (born 1968, Alphen aan den Rijn) is a Dutch former field hockey defender, 236 caps, who won Olympic gold with the Netherlands at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 and the 1998 World Cup.
Wove paper
Wove paper shows an even, cloth-like texture when held to light, without the laid and chain lines of traditional laid paper, and makes up over 99% of the world's paper.
Woven by Toyota
Woven by Toyota is the Toyota Group's software and mobility subsidiary, responsible for the Arene vehicle software platform and the Woven City test course near Mount Fuji.