Myelin
[mahy-uh-lin] /ˈmaɪ ə lɪn/
noun, Biology.
1.
a soft, white, fatty material in the membrane of Schwann cells and certain neuroglial cells: the substance of the .
/ˈmaɪɪlɪn/
noun
1.
a white tissue forming an insulating sheath (myelin sheath) around certain nerve fibres. Damage to the myelin sheath causes neurological disease, as in multiple sclerosis
n.
also myeline, “soft material found in nerve tissues,” 1867, from German Myelin (1854), from Greek myelos “marrow; the brain, innermost part,” of unknown origin.
myelin my·e·lin (mī’ə-lĭn) or my·e·line (-lĭn, -lēn’)
n.
my’e·lin’ic adj.
myelin
(mī’ə-lĭn)
A whitish, fatty substance that forms a sheath around many vertebrate nerve fibers. Myelin insulates the nerves and permits the rapid transmission of nerve impulses. The white matter of the brain is composed of nerve fibers covered in myelin.
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