Wen

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wen \Wen\ (w[e^]n), n. [AS. wenn; akin to D. wen, LG. wenne.]
     (Med.)
     An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a
     sebaceous cyst.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wyn \Wyn\, Wynn \Wynn\, n. Also Wen \Wen\ [AS. w[=e]n.]
     One of the runes (?) adopted into the Anglo-Saxon, or Old
     English, alphabet. It had the value of modern English w, and
     was replaced from about a. d. 1280 at first by uu, later by
     w.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wen
       n : a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum)
           that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been
           blocked [syn: {sebaceous cyst}, {pilar cyst}, {steatocystoma}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "wen":
     benign tumor, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, boil,
     bulla, bump, bunion, callosity, callus, cancer, carbuncle,
     carcinoma, check, cicatrix, comedo, corn, crack, crater, craze,
     cyst, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dilatation,
     dilation, disfiguration, disfigurement, distension, distortion,
     edema, excrescence, fault, flaw, freckle, fungosity, fungus,
     furuncle, growth, hemangioma, hickey, intumescence, keloid, kink,
     lentigo, lump, malignant growth, metastatic tumor, milium, mole,
     morbid growth, needle scar, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor,
     outgrowth, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark,
     port-wine stain, proud flesh, pustule, rift, rising, sarcoma, scab,
     scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, split, strawberry mark, sty, swell,
     swelling, swollenness, track, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity,
     tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, twist, verruca,
     vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, whitehead