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Zenker’s degeneration

Zen·ker's de·gen·er·a·tion [ zèngkərz di jènnə ráysh'n ]


noun 
Definition:
 
death of groups of muscle cells: the occasional effect of prolonged severe fevers in which clumps of muscle cells die

[Late 19th century. After the German pathologist Friedrich Albert von Zenker (1825-1889)]
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