It would be lower case "w" sm
Posted By: Anony on 2006-01-10
In Reply to: I'm having a friendly debate with a doctor, can you help me? - Jill
Subject: It would be lower case "w" sm
It is named after Augustus V. Waller. The word wallerian is not a proper noun. It's the same principle as applied to Parkinson disease when the dictator says "parkinsonism".
I've seen a lot of text books and word books that have wrong spellings in them.
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