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Widal test
Widal test: 1896 serological agglutination test by Georges-Fernand Widal (also Gruber-Widal reaction) detecting Salmonella O and H antibodies for typhoid diagnosis; unreliable, low specificity, still used cheaply in endemic countries.
Wide area transepithelial sampling
Wide area transepithelial sampling (WATS) is an endoscopic brushing method, aided by computer-assisted 3D analysis, that detects Barrett's esophagus and dysplasia as an adjunct to forceps biopsy.
Wide local excision
Wide local excision is a surgical procedure removing a tumor with a surrounding margin of healthy tissue, the standard operation for early breast cancer, also called lumpectomy.
Wide symphysis pubis
Wide symphysis pubis (先天性恥骨結合拡大), ICD-11 LB74.5, is a congenital structural developmental anomaly of the pelvic girdle in which the pubic symphysis joint is abnormally wide; normal adult width is 3–6 mm and separation over 10 mm is pathological.
Widow's peak
Widow's peak: a V-shaped point in the hairline at the center of the forehead, named for a widowhood superstition; a normal variant, wrongly taught as a single dominant gene, and distinct from a receding hairline.
Wieacker-Wolff syndrome
Wieacker-Wolff syndrome (WRWF), also ZC4H2 Associated Rare Disorders (ZARD), is an ultra-rare X-linked ZC4H2 gene disorder causing arthrogryposis, muscle weakness, and intellectual disability, first described in 1985.
Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch syndrome
Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch syndrome (neonatal progeroid syndrome, OMIM 264090): ultra-rare autosomal recessive progeroid disorder present at birth, caused by biallelic POLR3A RNA polymerase III variants, with growth retardation, lipodystrophy, sparse hair, and natal teeth.
Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome
Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome (WSS, WDSTS, OMIM 605130) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder caused by KMT2A variants, marked by developmental delay, intellectual disability, hypertrichosis cubiti, and distinctive facial features.
Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift
Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (WMW), Vienna Medical Weekly, is an Austrian medical journal founded 1851, interrupted 1944-1946, now a Springer hybrid German-English journal with print ISSN 0043-5341 and eISSN 1563-258X.
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.
Wildervanck syndrome
Wildervanck syndrome (cervicooculoacoustic syndrome, OMIM 314600), rare female-predominant congenital triad of Klippel-Feil anomaly, Duane syndrome, and congenital deafness; about 90 cases, cause unknown.
William Adam Grobman
William Adam Grobman is an American maternal-fetal medicine specialist and clinical researcher at Brown University and Care New England who led the 2018 ARRIVE trial.
William Beecher Scoville
William Beecher Scoville (1906–1984) was an American neurosurgeon who led neurosurgery at Hartford Hospital for 29 years and performed the 1953 H.M. operation that launched modern memory research.
William C. Gorgas
William C. Gorgas, also known as William Crawford Gorgas, was an American Army physician whose mosquito control eliminated yellow fever from Havana and the Panama Canal Zone.
William G. Anlyan
William G. Anlyan (1925–2016) was an American surgeon and academic administrator at Duke University, serving as the medical school's third dean and first Chancellor for Health Affairs.
William G. Barsan
William G. Barsan is an American emergency physician, founding chair of emergency medicine at the University of Michigan and a leader of stroke clinical trials.
William H. Sweet
William Herbert Sweet (1910–2001) was an American neurosurgeon, professor at Harvard Medical School, and chief of neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, known for pioneering pain treatment and brain imaging.
William Harvey
William Harvey (1578–1657), English physician and anatomist, demonstrated the circulation of the blood in De Motu Cordis (Frankfurt, 1628) using ligature experiments, venous valves, and a quantitative flow argument, overturning Galenic physiology.
William Henry Battle
William Henry Battle (1855–1936) was a British surgeon at St Thomas's and the Royal Free Hospital in London, remembered for Battle's sign, mastoid bruising indicating a skull-base fracture.
William J. Kinnard Jr.
William J. Kinnard Jr. was an American pharmacist and pharmacologist who served as dean of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy from 1968 to 1989.
William James Mayo
William James Mayo was an American abdominal surgeon who, with his brother Charles, built the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and gave it away in 1919.
William Kennedy Smith
William Kennedy Smith, American physician and Kennedy family member (nephew of JFK), acquitted in 1991 of raping Patricia Bowman in a televised Palm Beach trial; later founded land mine rehabilitation organizations; 2004 civil suit dismissed.
William N. Hubbard Jr.
William N. Hubbard Jr. (1919–2018) was an American physician who served as Dean of the University of Michigan Medical School and President of Upjohn's Pharmaceutical Division.
William N. Spellacy
William N. Spellacy (died 2015) was an American obstetrician-gynecologist and maternal-fetal medicine researcher at the University of South Florida, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1992.
William Osler
Sir William Osler (1849–1919), Canadian physician, Johns Hopkins founding professor and Oxford Regius Professor; pioneered bedside teaching and the medical residency, wrote Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892), and faced modern criticism over the Komagata Maru remark.
William Price (physician)
William Price was a Welsh physician and Chartist whose 1884 trial established the legality of cremation in Britain; his own cremation in 1893 drew 20,000 spectators.
William R. Felts
William R. Felts, also known as William Robert Felts Jr. (1923–2003), was an American rheumatologist and professor of medicine at George Washington University, known for widely cited 1989 estimates of arthritis prevalence and cost.
William R. Hazzard
William R. Hazzard is an American geriatrician whom the American Geriatrics Society calls a founding father of geriatric medicine in the United States, and a Wake Forest professor emeritus.
William S. Marras
William S. Marras is an American ergonomics researcher at Ohio State University who directs its Spine Research Institute and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.