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Wallerian degeneration

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A condition caused by degeneration, atrophy, and destruction of the distal part of a nerve fiber's axon and myelin, when continuity with the neural cell nucleus has been severed due to injury. Signs and symptoms include muscle weakness, altered sensation, and limb numbness. [ NCIT:C85223 ]

Term info

database cross reference
  • GARD:0007875 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
  • MESH:D014855 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
  • NCIT:C85223 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
Subsets

gard_rare

IAO 0000233

https://github.com/monarch-initiative/mondo/issues/2312

definition

A condition caused by degeneration, atrophy, and destruction of the distal part of a nerve fiber's axon and myelin, when continuity with the neural cell nucleus has been severed due to injury. Signs and symptoms include muscle weakness, altered sensation, and limb numbness.

exactMatch

http://identifiers.org/mesh/D014855, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C85223

has exact synonym

Wallerian Degeneration

has related synonym

Degeneration, Wallerian, Wallerian degeneration of the pyramidal tract

id

MONDO:0043280

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