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Definition of Nodes of Ranvier
1. Noun. Small gaps in the myelin sheath of medullated axons.
Group relationships: Medullary Sheath, Myelin Sheath
Generic synonyms: Gap, Opening
Definition of Nodes of Ranvier
1. Noun. (plural of node of Ranvier) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nodes Of Ranvier
Literary usage of Nodes of Ranvier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"These were first described by Ranvier, and are known as the nodes of Ranvier (Fig.
654). The portion of nerve-fibre between two nodes is called an ..."
2. Text-book of anatomy and physiology for nurses by Diana Clifford Kimber, Carolyn Elizabeth Gray (1914)
"nodes of Ranvier. — At regular intervals along the course of a medullated
nerve-fibre there are noted ring-like constrictions about the nerve-fibre dividing ..."
3. Developmental Pathology by Eugene S. Talbot (1905)
"... trunks show the medullated character very well, many nodes of Ranvier being
in evidence. Varicosities and various degrees of degeneration can be ..."
4. 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 (1913)
"It would be more difficult to advance a condition in which efferent impulses
support this function of the nodes of Ranvier; for most motor activity ..."
5. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"constrictions or nodes of Ranvier, as they may conveniently be ... Nodes of
Ranvier, with axis-cylinder passing ..."
6. Outlines of Practical Histology by William Stirling (1890)
"The part beween any two successive nodes of Ranvier is an ... nodes of Ranvier
are absent from the nerve-fibres of the brain and spinal cord. ..."
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