Medical abbreviations and acronyms (W)

This article contains a list of commonly used medical abbreviations and acronyms that start with the letter W and may be encountered in medicine and radiology (please keep the main list and any sublists in alphabetic order).

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• W
  • tryptophan (single letter amino acid code)
  • tungsten (German: wolfram)
  • watt
  • weight
  • width
• WAGR: Wilms tumor, aniridia, genitourinary anomalies, retardation
• WATS: water selective (Philips)
• WAVE: water selective volume excitation (Philips)
• WB
  • weight bearing
  • western blot
  • whole body
• Wb: weber (SI unit of magnetic flux)
• WBAT: weight bearing as tolerated
• WBC: white blood cells
• WBCT: whole body CT
• WB-MRI: whole body-MRI
• WBR: whole body radiation
• WCC: white cell count
• WD: Whipple disease
• WDLPS: well-differentiated liposarcoma
• WFOP: water-fat opposed phase
• WHO: World Health Organization
• WHOL: worst headache of life
• WL: window level
• WM: white matter
• WNL: within normal limits
• WPW: Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
• WRT: with regards to
• WSW: women who have sex with women
• Wt: weight
• WTU: ward test urine
• WW: window width
• WWP: warm and well perfused
• WWS: Walker-Warburg syndrome