medical Definition of Zenker's degeneration
:hyaline degeneration of voluntary muscles associated with severe infectious diseases (as typhoid fever) — called also
waxy degeneration
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Zenker
\ˈtseŋ-kər\, Friedrich Albert von (1825–1898),
German pathologist and anatomist. Zenker held professorships at Dresden and Erlengen, Germany. He introduced Zenker's fluid in 1894.
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