Schwannn.

1874 A. E. J. Barker tr. H. Frey Histol. & Histochem. of Man Index 680/1 Schwann's sheath of nerve fibre.

1882 T. E. Satterthwaite Man. Histol. (ed. 2) ix. 110 A delicate membrane or envelope, the sheath of Schwann or primitive sheath.

1882 T. E. Satterthwaite Man. Histol. (ed. 2) ix. 110 The neurilemma, which by some is spoken of as synonymous with Schwann's sheath (Frey).

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.

1898 Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. 7 183 The terminal branches of the axis cylinder are not invested with a continuation of the sheath of Schwann.

1925 O. S. Strong & A. Elwyn Bailey's Text-bk. Histol. (ed. 7) viii. 197 (caption) Ring-like thickening of Schwann's sheath at node of Ranvier.

1972 Matzke & Foltz Synopsis of Neuroanat. (ed. 2) ii. 11 The axon may have one or two coverings: myelin and sheath of Schwann.

1904 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 3 261 [He] referred to them as ‘nerve corpuscles’ and ‘half-moon cells’, and they have since been called ‘Schwann's corpuscles’ from their relation to the sheath of Schwann and their supposed identity with the nucleus of that sheath in the adult peripheral nerve.

1906 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 5 121 If one examines a developing nerve, one sees that there are numerous spindle shaped cells (cells of Schwann, sheath cells) throughout its course.

1931 W. Bloom A. A. Maximow's Text-bk. Histol. xii. 254 The nuclei of the Schwann cells usually are flattened and oval.

1960 G. Causey Cell of Schwann i. 5 The differentiation between Schwann membrane and Schwann cell that has been made by many histologists since 1839 is not a distinction that existed in Schwann's original description.

1960 G. Causey Cell of Schwann iv. 45 The term Schwann cell will be now used for any cell that enfolds a nerve fibre within its cytoplasm, whether..in the somatic or visceral parts of the peripheral nervous system.

1967 Matzke & Foltz Synopsis of Neuroanat. ii. 11 The Schwann cell contains a scanty amount of cytoplasm but a prominent nucleus.

1968 W. Bloom & D. W. Fawcett Textbk. Histol. (ed. 9) xii. 321/1 The myelin is actually part of the Schwann cell, consisting of spirally wrapped layers of its surface membrane... The outer membrane..and the protein-polysaccharide boundary layer on its outer aspect were resolved with the light microscope as a single layer, which has traditionally been called the neurilemma.

1976 Path. Ann. 11 355 Studies of regenerating nerve provided morphologic data suggesting that Schwann cells are capable of manufacturing fibrillar collagen.