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lacerate(medicine)
lacerate(1)(dictionary)
lacerate(2)(dictionary)
lacerate(dictionary)
Degeneration(medicine)
red degeneration(medicine)
degeneration(dictionary)
Nissl degeneration(medicine)
neurofibrillary degeneration(medicine)

lacerate(2) (iou) and Reaction of degeneration (medicine)


lacerate(2) (iou)



lacerate verb trans. LME.
[Latin lacerat- pa. ppl stem of lacerare, from lacer mangled, torn: see -ATE3.]
Rip, mangle (esp. flesh or tissues); tear to pieces, tear up; fig. afflict, distress, harrow.
B. England Jagged edges that lacerated their arms..leaving slivers of..cane..in the flesh. V. Nabokov He was lacerated with pity.
lacerable adjective able to be lacerated M17.
lace'ration noun the action or process of lacerating flesh etc.; an instance of this; an open wound in which the skin (and underlying tissue) has been torn rather than cut: L16.
lacerative adjective (rare) tending to lacerate M17.

Reaction of degeneration (medicine)


reaction of degeneration


The electrical reaction in a degenerated nerve and the muscles supplied by it; characterised by absence of response to both galvanic and faradic stimulus in the nerve and to faradic stimulus in the muscles; the muscles may still respond to galvanic stimulation, but the cathodal closing contraction is greater than the anodal closing contraction, the reverse of normal.