Wt
Abbreviation for weight. For example, ‘Wt 80 lbs’ means ‘weight 80 pounds.’
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a genetic condition caused by a mutation in the gene (CSPG2 on chromosome 5) encoding chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan-2, also known as versican. Versican is a substance present in the vitreous body of the eye. Symptoms and signs include changes in the vitreous body of the eye, retinal detachment, cataracts, and poor visual adaptation to dark. […]
- Waardenburg, Petrus Johannes
(1886-1979) Dutch ophthalmologist and medical geneticist who described the condition now known as Waardenburg syndrome. The syndrome is characterized by wide bridge of the nose owing to lateral displacement of the inner canthus of each eye, pigmentary disturbance (frontal white blaze of hair, eyes of different color, white eye lashes, leukoderma), and cochlear deafness. Waardenburg […]
- Waardenburg syndrome
A genetic disorder that causes deafness, white forelock (a frontal white blaze of hair), a difference of color between the iris of one eye and the other (heterochromia iridis), white eye lashes, and wide-set inner corners of the eyes. The deafness is typically congenital (present at birth), bilateral, profound sensorineural (nerve) deafness. The severity of […]