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Warts

Very common infectious thickenings of the skin caused by vira; usually seen on the hands and feet. Warts are usually harmless, but in rare cases wart-like eruptions of the skin have malignant potential.

Whiplash

Are about the consequences of being hit from behind when driving. The trauma injures the ligaments of the neck. Symptoms are: stiffness of the neck, headache, pain, visual disturbances, and anxiety attacks.

Whooping cough

A "classical" children's disease, beginning as a common cold, but developing into violent fits of coughing, with severe dyspnoea, and a whooping sound, whish has given name to the disease. At the end of a fit of coughing, vomiting is common.

Winds

See "Intestinal flatulence".

Wounds - Scars - Bruises

Various forms of tissue damage. Can be caused by outer affections from blows, pressure, stinges, burns, radiation, or cauterization or it can be the result of various diseases or states of deprivation.

Wounds of the duodenum

See "Gastric ulcer".