| wallerian degeneration |
Degeneration of an axon and its myelin sheath distal to the site of an injury.
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| wallerian degeneration |
degeneration of the portion of the axon and the myelin sheath of a neuron, distal to the site of injury wheal - elevated lesion of the skin white ramus communicans - the portion of a preganglionic sympathetic nerve fiber that branches away from the anterior ramus of a spinal nerve to enter the nearest sympathetic trunk ganglion Return to top
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| wallerian |
named for Augustus Volney Waller, English physiologist, 18161870, as wallerian degeneration.
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| wallerian d. |
fatty degeneration of a nerve fiber that has been severed from its nutritive centers; cf. dying-back. Called also secondary d.
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| Waller's law of degeneration |
If a spinal nerve is completely divided, the distal portion undergoes fatty degeneration.
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