DeCS 
    2008 - March 17, 2008 version
    
       
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 | W-Pouch use Colonic Pouches | 
| WAGR Syndrome | 
| WAS Protein Family use Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein Family | 
| WASP Protein use Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein | 
| WASP-Family Verprolin Homologous Proteins use Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein Family | 
| WAVE Proteins use Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein Family | 
| WDHA use Vipoma | 
| WDHH use Vipoma | 
| WDSV use Epsilonretrovirus | 
| WEE Virus use Encephalitis Virus, Western Equine | 
| WFP use World Food Programme | 
| WGA-HRP use Wheat Germ Agglutinin-Horseradish Peroxidase Conjugate | 
| WHO use World Health Organization | 
| WHO Emergency Health Kit use Emergency Health Kit | 
| WHR use Waist-Hip Ratio | 
| WORM Disks use Optical Storage Devices | 
| WPW Syndrome use Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome | 
| WT1 Proteins | 
| Waardenburg's Syndrome | 
| Waddliaceae use Chlamydiales | 
| Wages use Salaries and Fringe Benefits | 
| Waikavirus | 
| Waist-Hip Ratio | 
| Waiting Lists | 
| Wakame use Undaria | 
| Wakefulness | 
| Wakerobin use Trillium | 
| Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia | 
| Wales | 
| Walkers | 
| Walking | 
| Walking Sticks use Canes | 
| Wallabies use Macropodidae | 
| Wallabies, Rock use Macropodidae | 
| Wallaroo use Macropodidae | 
| Wallenberg Syndrome use Lateral Medullary Syndrome | 
| Wallerian Degeneration | 
| Walleye dermal sarcoma virus use Epsilonretrovirus | 
| Walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus 1 use Epsilonretrovirus | 
| Walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus 2 use Epsilonretrovirus | 
| Wallflower use Erysimum | 
| Walnut use Juglans | 
| Walruses | 
| Waltheria use Sterculiaceae | 
| Wandering Spleen | 
| Wangiella use Exophiala | 
| War | 
| War Between the States use American Civil War | 
| War Crimes | 
| War Neuroses use Combat Disorders | 
| War Wounded | 
| Ward-Romano Syndrome use Romano-Ward Syndrome | 
| Wards, General use Patients' Rooms | 
| Warfarin | 
| Warm Currents | 
| Warm Ischemia | 
| Warning | 
| Wars use Military Activities | 
| Wart-Hog Disease Virus use African Swine Fever Virus | 
| Warthin Tumor use Adenolymphoma | 
| Warthogs use Swine | 
| Warts | 
| Warts, Genital use Condylomata Acuminata | 
| Warts, Venereal use Condylomata Acuminata | 
| Wasabia | 
| Wash Basins use Sanitary Devices | 
| Washing Agent use Washing Agents | 
| Washing Agents | 
| Washington | 
| Washington, D.C. use District of Columbia | 
| Wasp Venoms | 
| Wasps | 
| Wassermann Reaction use Syphilis Serodiagnosis | 
| Waste Administration use Waste Management | 
| Waste Classification | 
| Waste Disposal, Fluid | 
| Waste Disposal, Medical use Medical Waste Disposal | 
| Waste Disposal, Solid use Refuse Disposal | 
| Waste Exchange | 
| Waste Importation use Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes | 
| Waste Management | 
| Waste Marketing | 
| Waste Products | 
| Waste Recovery use Solid Waste Use | 
| Waste of Water | 
| Wastewater Biological Characteristics | 
| Wastewater Characteristics | 
| Wastewater Chemical Characteristics | 
| Wastewater Discharge use Wastewater Disposal | 
| Wastewater Disposal | 
| Wastewater Physical Characteristics | 
| Wastewater Pumps | 
| Wastewater Reuse use Wastewater Use | 
| Wastewater Treatability use Analysis of Treatability | 
| Wastewater Treatment | 
| Wastewater Treatment Plants | 
| Wastewater Use | 
| Wasting Disease use Wasting Syndrome | 
| Wasting Disease, Chronic | 
| Wasting Disease, HIV use HIV Wasting Syndrome | 
| Wasting Syndrome | 
| Wasting Syndrome, HIV use HIV Wasting Syndrome | 
| Water | 
| Water Acidity | 
| Water Alkalinity | 
| Water Analysis | 
| Water Bacteriological Characteristics | 
| Water Balance | 
| Water Based Diseases use Waterborne Diseases | 
| Water Biological Characteristics | 
| Water Biology use Aquatic Biology | 
| Water Buffaloes use Buffaloes | 
| Water Channel Proteins use Aquaporins | 
| Water Channels use Aquaporins | 
| Water Characteristics | 
| Water Chemical Characteristics | 
| Water Chemical Properties use Water Chemical Characteristics | 
| Water Chemistry | 
| Water Chestnut, Chinese use Eleocharis | 
| Water Classification | 
| Water Code use Water Rights | 
| Water Collection | 
| Water Color | 
| Water Conditioning use Water Treatment | 
| Water Condominial Systems | 
| Water Conflicts | 
| Water Conservation | 
| Water Conservation Devices | 
| Water Consumption use Drinking | 
| Water Consumption (Environmental Health) | 
| Water Consumption Measurement | 
| Water Consumption Variations | 
| Water Contamination Control | 
| Water Contamination Effects | 
| Water Contest use Water Conflicts | 
| Water Controversies use Water Conflicts | 
| Water Cost | 
| Water Currents | 
| Water Cycle use Hydrological Cycle | 
| Water Decontamination use Water Treatment | 
| Water Demand | 
| Water Deprivation | 
| Water Disagreement use Water Conflicts | 
| Water Discharge | 
| Water Discharge Meter use Flowmeters | 
| Water Discharge Meters use Flowmeters | 
| Water Disinfectants | 
| Water Disinfection | 
| Water Disputes use Water Conflicts | 
| Water Distribution | 
| Water Distribution Networks | 
| Water Economic Value use Water Value | 
| Water Flavour | 
| Water Flea use Cladocera | 
| Water Flow | 
| Water Flow Meters use Flowmeters | 
| Water Flow Regulators use Water Valves | 
| Water Hammer | 
| Water Hammer Absorbers use Water Hammer Arrester Valves | 
| Water Hammer Arrester use Water Hammer Arrester Valves | 
| Water Hammer Arrester Valves | 
| Water Hardness | 
| Water Hemlock use Cicuta | 
| Water Hyacinth use Eichhornia | 
| Water Intake use Drinking | 
| Water Intoxication | 
| Water Level | 
| Water Level Measurement | 
| Water Level Recorders | 
| Water Lily use Nymphaea | 
| Water Litigation use Water Conflicts | 
| Water Loss use Leakage | 
| Water Loss Control use Leakage | 
| Water Loss, Insensible | 
| Water Memory use Action Mode of Homeopathic Drugs | 
| Water Meter use Water Pressure Meters | 
| Water Meters use Water Pressure Meters | 
| Water Microbiological Characteristics | 
| Water Microbiology | 
| Water Moccasin use Colubridae | 
| Water Monitoring | 
| Water Movements | 
| Water Nature use Water Characteristics | 
| Water Needs use Water Demand | 
| Water Odour | 
| Water Organoleptic Characteristics | 
| Water Physical Characteristics | 
| Water Physicochemical Characteristics | 
| Water Physicochemical Properties use Water Physicochemical Characteristics | 
| Water Policy | 
| Water Pollutants | 
| Water Pollutants, Chemical | 
| Water Pollutants, Radioactive | 
| Water Pollution | 
| Water Pollution Sources use Water Pollutants | 
| Water Pollution, Chemical | 
| Water Pollution, Radioactive | 
| Water Pollution, Thermal use Water Pollution | 
| Water Pressure | 
| Water Pressure Meters | 
| Water Price use Water Cost | 
| Water Properties use Water Characteristics | 
| Water Purification | 
| Water Quality | 
| Water Quality Control | 
| Water Quality Criteria | 
| Water Quality Models | 
| Water Quality Standards | 
| Water Quantity | 
| Water Quarrels use Water Conflicts | 
| Water Rationing | 
| Water Recirculation | 
| Water Reclamation use Water Recycling | 
| Water Recovery use Wastewater Use | 
| Water Recycling | 
| Water Related Diseases use Waterborne Diseases | 
| Water Renovation use Water Recycling | 
| Water Resource Management use Integrated Water Resource Management | 
| Water Resources | 
| Water Resources Development | 
| Water Resources Management use Integrated Water Resource Management | 
| Water Resources Planning | 
| Water Rights | 
| Water Salinity use Saline Waters | 
| Water Samples | 
| Water Selfpurification | 
| Water Shortage | 
| Water Snake use Colubridae | 
| Water Softening | 
| Water Soluble Vitamins use Water-Soluble Vitamins | 
| Water Sources use Water Resources | 
| Water Spout | 
| Water Storage | 
| Water Stress use Dehydration | 
| Water Supply | 
| Water Supply Coverage | 
| Water Supply Enterprises | 
| Water Supply Systems use Water Supply | 
| Water Supply, Rural | 
| Water Towers | 
| Water Treatability use Analysis of Treatability | 
| Water Treatment | 
| Water Treatment Plants | 
| Water Turbidity | 
| Water Units use Public Standposts | 
| Water Use | 
| Water Valorization use Water Value | 
| Water Value | 
| Water Valves | 
| Water Virological Characteristics | 
| Water Viscosity | 
| Water Volume use Water Quantity | 
| Water Waste use Water Consumption (Environmental Health) | 
| Water Wrangle use Water Conflicts | 
| Water and Sewerage System Accessories | 
| Water-Electrolyte Balance | 
| Water-Electrolyte Imbalance | 
| Water-Soluble Vitamins | 
| Waterborne Diseases | 
| Waterborne Illnesses use Waterborne Diseases | 
| Waterclover use Marsileaceae | 
| Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome | 
| Watering use Irrigation (Agriculture) | 
| Watermelon use Citrullus | 
| Watermelon Stomach use Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia | 
| Watershed | 
| Watershed Planning use Basin Authorities | 
| Watery Diarrhea Syndrome use Vipoma | 
| Watery Diarrhea with Hypokalemic Alkalosis use Vipoma | 
| Wattle Tree use Acacia | 
| Wattles use Comb and Wattles | 
| Wautersia use Cupriavidus | 
| Wautersia eutropha use Cupriavidus necator | 
| Wave | 
| Waxes | 
| Weaning | 
| Weapons | 
| Weapons of Mass Destruction | 
| Weasels use Mustelidae | 
| Weather | 
| Weather Chart use Synoptic Chart | 
| Weather Forecast | 
| Weather Map use Synoptic Chart | 
| Weaver Mice use Mice, Neurologic Mutants | 
| Weber Syndrome use Brain Stem Infarctions | 
| Weber-Christian Disease use Panniculitis, Nodular Nonsuppurative | 
| Weber-Cockayne Syndrome use Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex | 
| Weber-Fechner Law use Differential Threshold | 
| Wechsler Scales | 
| Wedelia | 
| Wedensky Inhibition use Refractory Period, Electrophysiological | 
| Wedge Argument | 
| Wedge Pressure use Pulmonary Wedge Pressure | 
| Weed Control | 
| Weevils | 
| Wegener Autoantigen use Myeloblastin | 
| Wegener Granulomatosis | 
| Weibel-Palade Bodies | 
| Weight Gain | 
| Weight Lifting | 
| Weight Loss | 
| Weight Perception | 
| Weight Reduction use Weight Loss | 
| Weight by Age | 
| Weight-Bearing | 
| Weight-Loss Agents use Anti-Obesity Agents | 
| Weightlessness | 
| Weightlessness Countermeasures | 
| Weightlessness Simulation | 
| Weights and Measures | 
| Weihe Points | 
| Weil Disease | 
| Weir use Dams | 
| Weirs | 
| Welding | 
| Welding, Dental use Dental Soldering | 
| Well Drilling | 
| Well Pumps | 
| Wellness Centers use Fitness Centers | 
| Wellness Programs use Health Promotion | 
| Wells | 
| Werdnig-Hoffmann Disease use Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood | 
| Werlhof's Disease use Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic | 
| Wermer Syndrome use Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 | 
| Werner Syndrome | 
| Wernicke Aphasia use Aphasia, Wernicke | 
| Wernicke Area use Temporal Lobe | 
| Wernicke Encephalopathy | 
| Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome use Korsakoff Syndrome | 
| West Bank use Middle East | 
| West Indian Manatee use Trichechus manatus | 
| West Indies | 
| West Indies Region use Caribbean Region | 
| West Irian use Indonesia | 
| West Nile Fever | 
| West Nile Virus Vaccines | 
| West Nile virus | 
| West Syndrome use Spasms, Infantile | 
| West Virginia | 
| Western Australia | 
| Western Blotting use Blotting, Western | 
| Western Equine Encephalitis use Encephalomyelitis, Western Equine | 
| Western Immunoblotting use Blotting, Western | 
| Western Samoa use Independent State of Samoa | 
| Western World | 
| Western equine encephalitis virus use Encephalitis Virus, Western Equine | 
| Wet Lung use Pulmonary Edema | 
| Wet Oxidation | 
| Wet Wipes | 
| Wetlands | 
| Wettability | 
| Wetting Agents | 
| Whale, False Killer use Dolphins | 
| Whale, Killer | 
| Whale, Melon-Headed use Dolphins | 
| Whale, Pygmy Killer use Dolphins | 
| Whales | 
| Whales, Pilot | 
| Wheat use Triticum | 
| Wheat Germ Agglutinin-Horseradish Peroxidase Conjugate | 
| Wheat Germ Agglutinins | 
| Wheat Germ Lectins use Wheat Germ Agglutinins | 
| Wheat Hypersensitivity | 
| Wheelchairs | 
| Wheezing use Respiratory Sounds | 
| Whiplash Injuries | 
| Whipple Disease | 
| Whipple's Disease use Whipple Disease | 
| Whirlpool Baths use Hydrotherapy | 
| Whiskers use Vibrissae | 
| Whistleblowing | 
| White Blood Cell Count use Leukocyte Count | 
| White Blood Cell Transfusion use Leukocyte Transfusion | 
| White Blood Cells use Leukocytes | 
| White Bryony use Bryonia alba | 
| White Fat use Adipose Tissue, White | 
| White Heifer Disease | 
| White Muscle Disease | 
| White Pepper use Black Pepper | 
| White Sponge Nevus of Cannon use Leukokeratosis, Hereditary Mucosal | 
| White Spots use Dental Caries | 
| White Whale use Beluga Whale | 
| White spot syndrome virus 1 | 
| White-Beaked Dolphins use Dolphins | 
| White-Sided Dolphins use Dolphins | 
| Whitefish use Salmonidae | 
| Whiteflies use Hemiptera | 
| Whites use European Continental Ancestry Group | 
| Whole Blood Coagulation Time | 
| Whole Body Imaging | 
| Whole Body Scanning use Whole Body Imaging | 
| Whole Complement Titer use Complement Hemolytic Activity Assay | 
| Whole Utilization of Foods | 
| Whole-Body Counting | 
| Whole-Body Irradiation | 
| Whole-Cell Recording use Patch-Clamp Techniques | 
| Wholistic Health use Holistic Health | 
| Whooping Cough | 
| Whortleberry use Vaccinium myrtillus | 
| Widowers use Widowhood | 
| Widowhood | 
| Widows use Widowhood | 
| Wiesbaden Aqua | 
| Wife Abuse use Spouse Abuse | 
| Wigglesworthia | 
| Wikstroemia | 
| Wilcox Test use Statistics, Nonparametric | 
| Wilcoxon Rank Test use Statistics, Nonparametric | 
| Wild Boar use Sus scrofa | 
| Wild Ginger use Asarum | 
| Wild Honeysuckle use Lonicera pericylmenum | 
| Wild Rosemary use Ledum | 
| Wild Sarsaparilla use Aralia | 
| Wildbad Aqua | 
| Wildfire | 
| Wildugen Aqua | 
| Will use Volition | 
| Williams Syndrome | 
| Willis' Circle use Circle of Willis | 
| Willow use Salix | 
| Willow, Water use Baccharis | 
| Wills | 
| Willy-Willy use Tropical Cyclone | 
| Wilms Tumor | 
| Wilms Tumor And Pseudohermaphroditism use Denys-Drash Syndrome | 
| Wilms Tumor Genes use Genes, Wilms Tumor | 
| Wilms Tumor-Aniridia-Genitourinary Anomalies-MR Syndrome use WAGR Syndrome | 
| Wilson Disease use Hepatolenticular Degeneration | 
| Wind | 
| Wind Energy | 
| Wind Erosion use Eolic Erosion | 
| Wind Force | 
| Wind Resources use Wind Energy | 
| Wind Velocity | 
| Windmills | 
| Wine | 
| Wine Industry | 
| Wines use Wine Industry | 
| Wing | 
| Winged-Helix Transcription Factors | 
| Winking use Blinking | 
| Winteraceae | 
| Winterberry use Ilex | 
| Wirsung's Duct use Pancreatic Ducts | 
| Wisconsin | 
| Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome | 
| Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein | 
| Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein Family | 
| Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein, Neuronal | 
| Wissler's Syndrome | 
| Wissler-Fanconi Syndrome use Wissler's Syndrome | 
| Wisteria | 
| Wit and Humor as Topic | 
| Witch Doctor, African use Medicine, African Traditional | 
| Witch Hazel use Hamamelis | 
| Witchcraft | 
| Witchweed use Striga | 
| Withania | 
| Withanolides | 
| Withdrawal Symptoms use Substance Withdrawal Syndrome | 
| Withdrawing Care use Withholding Treatment | 
| Withholding Treatment | 
| Wittenborn Scales use Psychiatric Status Rating Scales | 
| Wives use Spouses | 
| Wnt Proteins | 
| Wnt-2 Proto-oncogene Protein use Wnt2 Protein | 
| Wnt1 Protein | 
| Wnt1 Proto-Oncogene Protein use Wnt1 Protein | 
| Wnt2 Protein | 
| Woad use Isatis | 
| Wolbachia | 
| Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome | 
| Wolfberry use Lycium | 
| Wolff Periodic Disease use Familial Mediterranean Fever | 
| Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome | 
| Wolffian Body use Mesonephros | 
| Wolffian Ducts | 
| Wolfram use Tungsten | 
| Wolfram Syndrome | 
| Wolinella | 
| Wolinella succinogenes use Wolinella | 
| Wolman Disease | 
| Wolverines use Mustelidae | 
| Wolves | 
| Women | 
| Women Physicians use Physicians, Women | 
| Women's Health | 
| Women's Health Services | 
| Women's Liberation use Women's Rights | 
| Women's Rights | 
| Women, Abused use Battered Women | 
| Women, Battered use Battered Women | 
| Women, Pregnant use Pregnant Women | 
| Women, Working | 
| Wood | 
| Wood Finishing use Polishes (Health Surveillance) | 
| Woodbine use Gelsemium | 
| Woodchuck Hepatitis B Virus use Hepatitis B Virus, Woodchuck | 
| Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus use Hepatitis B Virus, Woodchuck | 
| Woodchucks use Marmota | 
| Woodfordia | 
| Wool | 
| Wooley monkey sarcoma virus use Sarcoma Virus, Woolly Monkey | 
| Woolly Monkey use Atelinae | 
| Word Association Tests | 
| Word Blindness, Acquired use Dyslexia, Acquired | 
| Word Processing | 
| Work | 
| Work Capacity Evaluation | 
| Work Environment use Working Environment | 
| Work Hours | 
| Work Hygiene use Occupational Health | 
| Work Risk use Occupational Risks | 
| Work Satisfaction use Job Satisfaction | 
| Work Schedule Tolerance | 
| Work Simplification | 
| Work of Breathing | 
| Worker use Workers | 
| Workers | 
| Workers Health use Occupational Health | 
| Workers Safety use Occupational Health | 
| Workers without Contract use Workers | 
| Workers' Compensation | 
| Working Conditions | 
| Working Environment | 
| Working Women use Women, Working | 
| Working-Age Population | 
| Workload | 
| Workmen's Compensation use Workers' Compensation | 
| Workplace | 
| Workplace Environment use Working Environment | 
| Workshops use Congresses as Topic | 
| World Bank use International Bank for Reconstruction and Development | 
| World Food Programme | 
| World Health | 
| World Health Organization | 
| World Population | 
| World Strategies | 
| World War I | 
| World War II | 
| World War, 1939-1945 use World War II | 
| World Wide Web use Internet | 
| Worm Breeding | 
| Worms, Parasitic use Helminths | 
| Worms, Segmented use Annelida | 
| Wormseed use Chenopodium ambrosioides | 
| Wormseed, Levant use Artemisia | 
| Wormwood use Artemisia | 
| Wound Healing | 
| Wound Infection | 
| Wounds and Injuries | 
| Wounds, Gunshot | 
| Wounds, Multiple use Multiple Trauma | 
| Wounds, Nonpenetrating | 
| Wounds, Penetrating | 
| Wounds, Stab | 
| Wrens use Songbirds | 
| Wrestling | 
| Wrightia antidysenterica use Kurchi | 
| Wrist | 
| Wrist Injuries | 
| Wrist Joint | 
| Writer's Cramp use Dystonic Disorders | 
| Writing | 
| Wrongful Birth use Wrongful Life | 
| Wrongful Life | 
| Wryneck use Torticollis | 
| Wu Zhu Yu use Evodia | 
| Wu wei zi use Schisandra | 
| Wuchereria | 
| Wuchereria bancrofti | 
| Wuweizi use Schisandra | 
| Wyethia helenoides | 
| Wyoming |