Medical Abbreviations Starting With "W"
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| Medical Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
| w | energy |
| w | tryptophan |
| w | tungsten |
| w | ward |
| w | water |
| w | watt |
| w | weak |
| w | weber's test |
| w | week |
| w | weight |
| w | western |
| w | white |
| w | whole |
| w | wide |
| w | widow |
| w | widower |
| w | width |
| w | wife |
| w | with |
| w | wohlfahrtia |
| w | work |
| w | wound |
| w-d | wet to dry |
| w/ | With |
| w/a | while awake |
| W/C | Wheelchair |
| w/n | within |
| w/o | without |
| w/u | work up |
| w/u | workup |
| wa | wide awake |
| wab | western aphasia battery |
| WAGR syndrome | Wilms tumor, Aniridia, Genitourinary anomalies, and mental Retardation syndrome |
| wais | wechsler adult intelligence scale |
| wais-r | weschler adult intelligence scale revised |
| waisr | wechsler adult intelligence scale revised |
| WAP | Wandering atrial pacemaker |
| was | wiskott aldrich syndrome |
| wass | wasserman |
| WAT | White adipose tissue |
| wb | weber |
| wb | weight bearing |
| wb | whole blood |
| wbat | weight bearing as tolerated |
| WBC | White blood cell |
| WBC | White blood cell count |
| wbcs | white blood cells |
| wbct | whole blood clotting time |
| WBRT | Whole brain radiotherapy treatment |
| wbs | wiedemann beckwith syndrome |
| wbt | weight bearing to tolerance |
| wc | wheelchair |
| WC | White cells |
| wc | whooping cough |
| wcc | white blood cell count |
| wcch | water clear cell hyperplasia |
| wchcd | water channel collecting duct |
| wcst | wisconsin card sorting test |
| wd | ward |
| WD | Well developed |
| wd | whipple's disease |
| WD | Wilson's disease |
| wd | withdrawal |
| wd | wound |
| wdhh | diarrheogenic tumor |
| WDL | Within defined limits |
| wdm | welander distal myopathy |
| WDWN | Well developed and well nourished |
| we | western encephalomyelitis |
| we | wide excision |
| wed | wednesday |
| wedi | the workgroup for electronic data interchange |
| WEE | Western equine encephalitis virus |
| wf | walking frame |
| wf | white female |
| wf | wistar furth rat |
| wfl | within functional limits |
| wfs | wolfram syndrome |
| WG | Wegener's granulomatosis |
| wga | wheat germ agglutinin |
| wgl | wheat germ lectin |
| wgn | wagner syndrome |
| WH | Well hydrated (not dehydrated or hyperhydrated) |
| whd | werdnig hoffmann disease |
| whim | warts hypogammaglobulinaemia infections myelokathexis |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| whomp | world health organization melanoma program |
| whr | waist hip ratio |
| WHRN | Whole Health Resource Network |
| whs | wolf hirschhorn syndrome |
| wi | wisconsin |
| wisc | wechsler intelligence scale for children |
| wisc | wisconsin |
| wk | week |
| wks | weeks |
| wky | wistar kyoto rat |
| wld | wilhelmsen lynch disease |
| wle | wide local excision |
| wlr | way leather restraints |
| wm | white male |
| WMA | World Medical Association |
| wms | wechsler memory scale |
| wms | weill marchesani syndrome |
| wms | williams syndrome |
| WN | Well nourished |
| wn | west nile fever |
| wnd | wilson disease |
| wnd | wound |
| wnl | we never looked |
| wnl | within normal limits |
| wob | work of breathing |
| wold | wechsler objective language dimensions test |
| wond | wechsler objective numerical dimensions test |
| wp | whirlpool |
| wpb | weibel palade bodies |
| wppsi | wechsler pre school and primary scale of intelligence |
| WPW | Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome |
| wr | wassermann reaction |
| wr | weight reducing diet |
| WRAIR | Walter Reed Army Institute of Research |
| wrat | wide range achievement test |
| wrn | werner syndrome |
| wrs | ward romano syndrome |
| WS | Waardenburg syndrome |
| WS | Warkany syndrome |
| WS | Water-soluble |
| WS | Werner syndrome |
| WS | West syndrome |
| WS | Williams syndrome |
| WS | Wolfram syndrome |
| wses | world scientific and engineering society |
| wsl | wesselsbron fever |
| wsn | waisman syndrome |
| wsp | white soft paraffin |
| wss | neurofibromatosis gene |
| wss | weaver smith syndrome |
| wss | wrinkly skin syndrome |
| wt | Weight |
| wt | wilms tumor |
| wts | wilson turner x linked mental retardation syndrome |
| wvi | genital wart virus infection |
| WWI | Walking while intoxicated (ethanol or other drugs) |
| WWI | World War I |
| wws | wieacker wolff syndrome |
| www | world wide web |