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  |