'Wen' definitions:
Definition of 'wen'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, wen, steatocystoma]
Definition of 'Wen'
From: 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]
Definition of 'Wen'
From: 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.
Synonyms of 'wen'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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