myelin
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myelo- + -in. From Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós, “marrow”).
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myelin (countable and uncountable, plural myelins)
- (neuroanatomy) A white, fatty material, composed of lipids and lipoproteins, that surrounds the axons of nerves.
- 1868 January, Edmund Montgomery, “On the Formation of so-called Cells in Animal Bodies”, in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 203:
- As the result of prolonged action of water upon myelin, bird's-nests-cells are also said to be produced, and we are certain we have seen, as the result of such prolonged action of water, the appearances thus compared.
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white, fatty material, composed of lipids and lipoproteins
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- “myelin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “myelin”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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myelin m inan (related adjective myelinový)