neurolemman.

1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. II ii. 1333 The nerves..are flat, fibrous cords, enclosed within a membranous envelope or neurolemma.

1892 E. A. Schäfer Essent. Histol. (ed. 3) xviii. 83 Outside the medullary sheath is a delicate but tough homogeneous membrane, the primitive sheath or nucleated sheath of Schwann... The primitive sheath is also known as the neurolemma.

1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. iii. 246 Medullated nerve fibres consisting of a central axis-cylinder surrounded by the medullary sheath and in some nerves by an external sheath or neurolemma.

1942 O. Larsell Anat. Nerv. Syst. iv. 48 A delicate sheath of connective tissue fibers, continuous with the endoneurium of the nerve trunk, is intimately associated with and surrounds the neurolemma of most individual peripheral fibers.

1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. II. xxxiv. 1252/1 Neurolemmomas arise from the cells of the neurolemma, or nerve sheath. It is believed that the cell of origin is the Schwann cell.

1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind xvii. 535 He [sc. Remak] observed the neurolemma (myelin sheath of nerve fibres) and delineated the six cortical cell layers of the cerebrum.

1942 A. A. Maximow & W. Bloom Textbk. Histol. (ed. 4) ix. 194 As the peripheral axons grow, the lemmoblasts follow them..until they form the complete neurolemmal sheaths.

1954 T. L. Peele Neuroanat. Basis Clin. Neurol. i. 13/2 The neurolemmal sheath of the spinal nerves, and of those cranial nerves possessing it, terminates (or begins) a short distance from spinal cord or brain stem.

1979 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76 4150/1 The nerve endings' neurolemmal membrane.

2000 Microsc. Res. & Technique 50 66 The cellular prion protein PrP(c) is a neurolemmal glycoprotein essential for the development of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.