"Myelin" is a word in ENGLISH
One of a group of phosphorized principles occurring in
nerve tissue, both in the brain and nerve fibers.
A soft white substance constituting the medullary sheats of
nerve fibers, and composed mainly of cholesterin, lecithin, cerebrin,
albumin, and some fat.
The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves.
Read the complete definitionApplied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal …
Read the complete definitionApplied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) …
Read the complete definitionOften applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura …
Read the complete definitionThe delicate bands of connective tissue among nerve fibers.
Read the complete definitionA cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are …
Read the complete definitionA natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested …
Read the complete definitionThe act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an …
Read the complete definitionFurnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath; as, a medullated nerve fiber.
Read the complete definitionCausing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; -- applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve …
Read the complete definitionA substance, present in the protoplasm of the retinal epithelium cells, and resembling, if not identical with, the substance (myelin) …
Read the complete definitionOne of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers …
Read the complete definitionThe delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath.
Read the complete definitionA substance, resembling keratin, present in nerve tissue, as in the sheath of the axis cylinder of medullated nerve fibers. …
Read the complete definitionA tumor developed on, or connected with, a nerve, esp. one consisting of new-formed nerve fibers.
Read the complete definitionNot medullated; (Anat.) without a medulla or marrow, or without a medullary sheath; as, a nonmedullated nerve fiber.
Read the complete definitionSurrounding nerves or nerve fibers; of or pertaining to the perineurium.
Read the complete definitionThe connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.
Read the complete definitionA network of vessels, nerves, or fibers.
Read the complete definitionCausing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites …
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