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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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Biographical Note for zenker's degeneration
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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