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)
W and W: watch and wait
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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
WEB: woven-endobridge device
WFL: within functional limits
WFOP: water-fat opposed phase
WHO: World Health Organisation
WHOL: worst headache of life
WL: window level
WM: white matter
WNL: within normal limits
WOB: work of breathing
WON: walled off necrosis
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
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