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reaction of degeneration

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Main Entry: reaction of degeneration
Function: noun
: the reaction to electric stimulation that occurs in muscles in which the nerves have undergone degeneration and thatconsists in severe cases of a sluggish response to galvanic stimulation of the muscle and no response to faradic stimulation of the muscle or to galvanic or faradic stimulation of the nerve—abbreviation RD
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reaction of degeneration n.

Abbr. DR, RD The electrical reaction in a degenerated nerve and in the muscles it supplies.

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Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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