wen

wen ¹  (wn)

n.

A harmless cyst, especially on the scalp or face, containing the fatty secretion of a sebaceous gland.

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[Middle English, from Old English; see wen-² in Indo-European roots.]

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wen ²  (wn)

n.

Variant of wynn.

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wen¹

n

1. (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol a sebaceous cyst, esp one occurring on the scalp

2. (Social Science / Human Geography) a large overcrowded city (esp London in the phrase the great wen)

[Old English wenn; related to Danish dialect van, væne, Dutch wenn]

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wen²

n

(Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) a rune having the sound of Modern English w

[Old English wen, wyn]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

wen - a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked pilar cyst, sebaceous cyst, steatocystoma chalazion, Meibomian cyst - a small sebaceous cyst of the eyelid resulting when a Meibomian gland is blocked cyst - a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure

Translations

wen [wen] N → lobanillo m, quiste m sebáceo
the Great Wen → el gran tumor(Londres)