Medical Terminology Glossary

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Wallerian degeneration - degeneration of the portion of the axon and the myelin sheath of a neuron, distal to the site of injury

wheal - elevated lesion of the skin

white ramus communicans - the portion of a preganglionic sympathetic nerve fiber that branches away from the anterior ramus of a spinal nerve to enter the nearest sympathetic trunk ganglion