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‖ myelon Anat.|ˈmaɪəlɒn|
[a. Gr. µυελόν, late var. of µυελός marrow.]
Owen's name for the spinal cord. Hence ˈmyelonal, myeˈlonic adjs.
1846Owen Lect. Anat. Vertebrate Anim. i. Fishes 172 This part is called the ‘brain’ or encephalon: the rest of the axis I term the ‘myelon’. Ibid. 174 At the bottom of the ventricle the myelonal canal is exposed. 1883E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 680/2 The retina of the Molluscan cephalic eye,..unlike that of the Vertebrate myelonic eye, is essentially a modified area of the general epiderm. |