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Weight loss pill
Weight loss pill A medical pill curbing appetite to produce weight loss.
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Pertaining to Medicine.
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Weight loss clinic
A clinic specialized in weight loss treatment.
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Warfarin
Warfarin is an anticoagulant that prevents blood clots from forming. It is used to prevent heart attacks and strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation and artificial heart valves.
Wellbutrin
Wellbutrin or Bupropion is used to relieve symptoms of depression such as feelings of sadness, worthlessness or guilt, loss of interest in daily activities, changes in appetite, tiredness, sleeping too much, insomnia, and thoughts of death or suicide. Wellbutrin belongs the aminoketone class, chemically unrelated to tricyclics or SSRIs. It is similar in structure to the stimulant cathinone, and to phenethylamines in general. Bupropion is also used to help people stop smoking by reducing withdrawal effects.
Wilson's Disease
A genetic disorder where the copper metabolism is abnormal, leading to copper accumulation in the liver, resulting in hepatitis and chronic hepatic injury, and in the brain, resulting in psychiatric and neurologic symptoms. Wilson´s disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. The disease is fatal unless treated. Penicillamine is the drug mostly used in the treatment of this disease.
Wittmaack-Ekbom Syndrome
Wittmaack-Ekbom or restless legs syndrome is a disorder of the nervous system that affects sensation and movement in the legs and causes the limbs to feel uncomfortable. Relief can be temporarily gained by moving the legs which cause sufferers to seem fidgety and restless.
Williams-Beuren Syndrome (WBS)
Williams syndrome (Williams-Beuren syndrome) is a rare genetic disorder, occurring in fewer than 1 in every 20,000 live births. It is characterized by a distinctive, "elfin" facial appearance, an unusually cheerful demeanor, ease with strangers, mental retardation coupled with an unusual facility with language, a love for music, cardiovascular problems such as supravalvular aortic stenosis, and hypercalcemia.
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Whitehead
An acne lesion that forms when oil and skin cells block the opening of a hair follicle. For this reason, whiteheads are called “closed comedomes”.
White blood cells
Cells which help fight infections; also called leukocytes.
White matter
Nerve tissue that is paler in color than gray matter because it contains nerve fibers with large amounts of insulating material (myelin). The white matter does not contain nerve cells. In the brain, the white matter lies within the gray layer of the cerebral cortex.
Wisdom teeth
Third (last) molars that usually erupt at age 18-25 (when "wisdom is attained") .
Wegener's granulomatosis
Vasculitic condition in which granulomata are also found. Affects nasal mucosa/sinuses and may produce lung infiltrates and renal lesions.
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