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Definitions of myelin sheath
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  • ms a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
  • nodes of ranvier small gaps in the myelin sheath of medullated axons
  • schwann cell any cell that covers the nerve fibers in the peripheral nervous system and forms the myelin sheath
  • disseminated sclerosis a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
  • oligodendria tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers
  • myelinization the development of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiber
  • substantia alba whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths
  • multiple sclerosis a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
  • oligodendroglia tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers
  • demyelinate destroy the myelin sheath of
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