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Weil’s disease
Leptospirosis spread by the urine of rats. Serious form of leptospirosis, characterized by jaundice and liver and kidney damage. An infection or parasitic disease produced by the bacteria Leptospira. Weil disease is a severe form of leptospirosis that is characterized by severe dysfunction of the liver and kidneys. The infection causes excessive bleeding inside the…
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Weightlessness
The absence of downward pressure that is normally caused by the pull of gravity. In space, the gravitational pull of the earth is counterbalanced by the centrifugal force imparted to the spaceship by its initial rocket blast. The condition of not being acted on by the force of gravity. It is present when astronauts travel…
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Weighted vest
A specially designed garment that contains compartments to hold varying amounts of weight.
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Weighted pupil method
A method of state funding of education based on the needs of the types of students in a district.
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Weighted average
In epidemiology, the providing of different weights to each component of the average, unweighted average.
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Wechsler preschool primary scale of intelligence
A standardized test of intelligence of children from 4 to 6.5 years.
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Wechsler intelligence scale for children revised
A standardized test of intelligence appropriate for children from 6 to 17 years.
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Wachsler adult intelligence scale-revised
A revised version of the original Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale, which is a standardized test for measuring adult intelligence.
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Web of causation
An illustration or map of those hypothesized relationships that are believed to exist between a health problem and the environmental, host, or agent factors that have caused the health problem to appear.
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Weber’s law
The observation that the size of the difference threshold is proportional to the intensity of the standard stimulus. The increase in stimulus necessary to produce the smallest perceptible increase in sensation bears a constant ratio to the strength of the stimulus already acting.
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