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Definition of Myeline
1. Noun. A white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers.
Substance meronyms: Medullary Sheath, Myelin Sheath
Generic synonyms: Fat
Derivative terms: Myelinic
Definition of Myeline
1. myelin [n -S] - See also: myelin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myeline
Literary usage of Myeline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"A more probable explanation is that of a toxic agent of unknown character having
a peculiar chemical affinity for myeline, and possibly also ..."
2. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1888)
"D. A fine nerve tube, rendered moniliform by the hardening. The thin layer of
myeline which covers it of a pale yellowish gray; ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1878)
"The regularity with which these fissures in the myeline occur is so striking that
one is led to believe that he has discovered something new in the ..."
4. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"The latter formations probably belong to the sympathetic system. The myeline is
a fatty substance, differing from ordinary fat, ..."
5. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1883)
"At comparatively regular intervals the myeline investment is traversed, ...
The myeline investment is separated from the central axis-cylinder by a delicate ..."
6. Cellular pathology: As Based Upon Physiological and Pathological Histology by Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, Franklin N. Chance (1860)
"Medullary substance (myeline).—Non-medullated and medullated-fibres.—Transition
from the one kind to the other: hypertrophy of the optic nerve. ..."
7. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1897)
"All stages up to complete replacement of the old myeline sheath and ... (I/) That
the old axis-cylinder and myeline .sheath are destroyed in the peripheral ..."
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