wallerian degeneration

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Definition of wallerian degeneration in English English dictionary

{i} (Medicine) degeneration in nerve fibre that has been cut off from its nutritive centres

A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; so called from Dr

Waller, who published an account of it in 1850

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wallerian de·gen·e·ra·tion