myelinolyticadj.
/ˌmʌɪᵻlɪnəˈlɪtɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌmaɪələnoʊˈlɪdɪk/ Pathology and Medicine.
Involving or characterized by myelinolysis; of, relating to, or characteristic of myelinolysis.
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1961 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 54 30/2 This ‘myelinolytic’ theory immediately poses..the further question as to the chemical nature of such hypothetical lytic substances.
1977 Investig. Ophthalmol. Visual Sci. 16 461 The optic nerve showed expected myelinolytic reactions.
1978 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 75 1554/1 The direct myelinolytic activity of macrophage-conditioned media was abolished by EDTA.
1988 Jrnl. Computer Assisted Tomography 12 446 One case showed only extrapontine myelinolytic lesions on magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
1995 Acta Neuropathologica 90 107 The distinction between myelinolytic lesions and lesions due to hepatocerebral degeneration was not always clear.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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