myelinatedadj.
/ˈmʌɪᵻlɪneɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈmaɪələˌneɪdᵻd/ Histology and Physiology.
Of a nerve fibre: enclosed in a myelin sheath. Also: consisting of such fibres.
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myelinic1876
neurilemmal1883
myelinate1894
myelinated1894
Schwann1904
1894 Philos. Trans. 1893 (Royal Soc.) B. 184 643 Krause..stated that each myelinated nerve-fibre contained in a spinal nerve-root stands in fixed relation with a definite anatomical point of the periphery.
1901 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 194 462 The new fibres are small but myelinated.
1920 S. W. Ranson Anat. Nerv. Syst. v. 72 Somewhat analogous structures are the neurotendinous end organs or tendon spindles where myelinated nerve-fibers end.
1948 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 135 323 In those mammalian nerve fibres which exceed 1 to 2μ in diameter there is enough lipide present to cause the sheath to blacken in osmium tetroxide solutions, and it is such fibres which are conventionally termed ‘myelinated’.
1967 Brain 90 763 État criblé (of Vogt) is the name applied to similar cavities in the centrum semi-ovale and other myelinated regions.
1998 Jrnl. Neurosci. Methods 79 21 This assay system could be used to demonstrate the lack of neuronal attachment to or neurite extension over myelinated regions of the CNS (white matter).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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