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Definitions of myelin
  1. noun
    a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers

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Definition that contains myelin
  • ms a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
  • cortex the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum
  • tract a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain
  • pathway a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain
  • myelin sheath a layer of myelin encasing (and insulating) the axons of medullated nerve fibers
  • myenteric plexus a plexus of unmyelinated fibers and postganglionic autonomic cell bodies in the muscular coat of the esophagus and stomach and intestines
  • gray matter greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons
  • peduncle a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain
  • schwann cell any cell that covers the nerve fibers in the peripheral nervous system and forms the myelin sheath
  • unmyelinated (of neurons) not myelinated
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