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W/C: wheelchair: WD: well developed: WDL: within defined limits (as per hospital defined policy) WH: well hydrated (not dehydrated or hyperhydrated) WDWN: well developed and well nourished: WEE: Western equine encephalitis virus: WG: Wegener's granulomatosis (now known as granulomatosis with polyangiitis) WISC-R: Wechsler intelligence scale for ...
Used to indicate that an abbreviation should be spelled out, such as in its first use stet: Let it stand: Indicates that proofreading marks should be ignored and the copy unchanged tr: transpose: Transpose the two words selected wf: Wrong font: Put text in correct font ww [3] Wrong word: Wrong word used (e.g. to/too)
Inches of water is a non-SI unit for pressure.It is also given as inches of water gauge (iwg or in.w.g.), inches water column (inch wc, in. WC, " wc, etc. or just wc or WC), inAq, Aq, or inH 2 O.
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes).This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).
W.C., an Irish feature film; WC (band), a Polish punk rock band; WC (rapper), a rapper from Los Angeles, California; Westside Connection, former hip-hop supergroup from Los Angeles, California; Warcraft, a multimedia franchise created by Blizzard Entertainment
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee; pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
Abbreviations of weights and measures are pronounced using the expansion of the unit (mg = "milligram") and chemical symbols using the chemical expansion (NaCl = "sodium chloride"). Some initialisms deriving from Latin may be pronounced either as letters ( qid = "cue eye dee") or using the English expansion ( qid = "four times a day").
The main discussion of these abbreviations in the context of drug prescriptions and other medical prescriptions is at List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Some of these abbreviations are best not used, as marked and explained here.