a. Phys. [f. the name of A. V. Waller (1816–70) + -IAN.] Of or pertaining to Waller, or to the kind of degeneration of tissue discovered by him.
1877. M. Foster, Physiol., III. i. (1878), 392. This method of diagnosis is often spoken of as the Wallerian method, after A. Waller.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 863. The part of the nerve-fibre between the rupture and the muscle now undergoes Wallerian degeneration. Ibid. (1899), VI. 492. The more active or Wallerian degeneration ensues. Ibid., 495. The operation of the Wallerian law.
