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noun - a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers
A white fatty material, composed chiefly of lipids and lipoproteins, that encloses certain axons and nerve fibers.
adj - a fatty substance that encases certain nerve fibers [n -S] : MYELINIC
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| This white fatty material insulates brain nerves in sheaths & enables enhanced transmission of impulses |
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| A white fatty material, composed chiefly of lipids and lipoproteins, that encloses certain axons and nerve fibers. Also called medulla. |
| a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers |
| a substance containing a lot of fat that forms a covering around nerves, especially those in the brain, protecting them and helping them to send signals effectively: |
| A mixture of proteins and phospholipids forming a whitish insulating sheath around many nerve fibres, which increases the speed at which impulses are conducted. |
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Myelin is a lipid-rich (fatty) substance formed in the central nervous system (CNS) by glial cells called oligodendrocytes, and in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) by Schwann cells. Each myelin sheath (of which there are many along each axon), is formed by the concentric wrapping of an oligodendrocyte or Schwann cell process around the axon. The myelinated axon can be likened to an electrical wire (the axon) with insulating material (myelin) around it. It provides a route for information (encoded as an electrical signal) to travel very rapidly from one nerve cell body to another (as in the CNS) or, for example, from a nerve cell body to a muscle (as in the PNS). * Myelin speeds the transmission of electrical impulses called action potentials along myelinated axons by insulating the axon and reducing axonal membrane capacitance. This results in saltatory conduction whereby the action potential jumps over long myelinated stretches of the axon, called internodes, from one node of Ranv |