Zenker's degeneration

Zenker's degeneration
Zen·ker's degeneration 'tseŋ-kərz-, 'zeŋ- n hyaline degeneration of voluntary muscles associated with severe infectious diseases (as typhoid fever) called also waxy degeneration
Zen·ker 'tseŋ-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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