Usually means: Deterioration of nerves after injury.
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  1. wallerian degeneration: Wordnik
  2. Wallerian degeneration: Wiktionary
  3. Wallerian degeneration, wallerian degeneration: Dictionary.com
  4. Wallerian degeneration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Wallerian degeneration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Wallerian degeneration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. wallerian degeneration: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Wallerian degeneration: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wallerian degeneration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Wallerian degeneration: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. wallerian degeneration: Medical dictionary
  7. Wallerian degeneration: Whonamedit.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (Wallerian degeneration)

noun:  (medicine) A process that results when a nerve fiber is cut or crushed, in which the part of the axon separated from the neuron's cell body degenerates distal to the injury.

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