Medical abbreviations and acronyms (W)
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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 tumour, 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
- WHO: World Health Organisation
- WHOL: worst headache of life
- WL: window level
- WM: white matter
- WNL: within normal limits
- WPW: Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
- WRT: with regards to
- Wt: weight
- WTU: ward test urine
- WW: window width
- WWP: warm and well perfused
- WWS: Walker-Warburg syndrome
-<a title="Tungsten" href="/articles/tungsten">tungsten</a> (German: wolfram)</li>- +<a href="/articles/tungsten">tungsten</a> (German: wolfram)</li>
-<li>WPW: <a title="Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome" href="/articles/wolff-parkinson-white-syndrome">Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome</a>- +<li>WPW: <a href="/articles/wolff-parkinson-white-syndrome">Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome</a>
- +<li>WWP: warm and well perfused</li>
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