Browse Medical Abbreviations
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| W | tungsten [element]; white |
| w | with; watt |
| w/ | with |
| W/C | wheelchair |
| W/D | withdrawal |
| w/n | well nourished |
| w/o | without |
| w/u | work up |
| w/v. | weight in volume |
| WA | while awake |
| WAIS | Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale |
| WAP | written action plan; wandering atrial pacer |
| WB | weight bearing; western blot; whole blood |
| WBAT | weight bearing as tolerated |
| WBC | white blood cell (count) |
| WCC | white cell count |
| WCT | wide complex tachycardia |
| WD | well developed |
| WD/WN | well developed, well nourished |
| WDWN | well-developed, well-nourished |
| Wed | Wednesday |
| WEE | western equine encephalomyelitis |
| WES | whole exome sequencing |
| WF | white female |
| WFL | within functional limits |
| WG | Wegener's granulomatosis |
| WGL | within good limits |
| WGS | whole genome sequencing |
| WH | well-hydrated |
| wh | white |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| WIB | western immunoblot |
| WIC | women, infants, children |
| wk | week |
| wks | weeks |
| WKS | Wernicke Korsakoff syndrome |
| wm | white male |
| WN | well nourished |
| WNL | within normal limits |
| WNV | West Nile Virus |
| WNWD | well-nourished, well-developed |
| WO | wide open |
| WOB | work of breathing |
| WOC | wound, ostomy, and continence nurse |
| WPD | warm, pink, dry (skin signs) |
| WPW | Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome |
| WS | Williams syndrome; work simplification; Werner Syndrome |
| WT | wild-type |
| wt. | weight |
| WWS | Walker-Warburg syndrome |
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