myelonn.
/ˈmʌɪᵻlɒn/, U.S. /ˈmaɪəˌlɑn/ Anatomy. Now rare.
The spinal cord.
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nuchaa1398
nuke?a1425
nuche1528
minuca1577
spinal cord1836
myelon1846
1846 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Vertebr. Animals i. Fishes. 172 This part is called the ‘brain’ or encephalon: the rest of the axis I term the ‘myelon’.
1881 Athenæum 10 Dec. 782/3 The centres whence are derived and caudally continued the homologues of the vertebrate myelon.
1908 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 199 139 It is impossible to place a precise limit to the transition from myelencephalon to spinal-cord-region, or myelon proper.
1993 Arch. Dis. Childhood 68 399 Macroscopic and microscopic immunohistochemical examination of the spinal cord revealed a diffuse CMV infiltration of the entire myelon.
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myeˈlonal adj. rare
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myelonal1846
myelonic1883
cortico-spinal1901
propriospinal1904
1846 R. Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. Vertebr. Animals i. Fishes 174 At the bottom of the ventricle the myelonal canal is exposed.
1988 Jrnl. Compar. Physiol. B. 157 709/1 Warm blood enters the myelonal vein from the red muscle vein.
myeˈlonic adj. rare
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myelonal1846
myelonic1883
cortico-spinal1901
propriospinal1904
1883 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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