MYELINATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myelinated mean? 

• MYELINATED (adjective)
  The adjective MYELINATED has 1 sense:

1. (of neurons) covered with a layer of myelin

  Familiarity information: MYELINATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYELINATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of neurons) covered with a layer of myelin

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

medullated; myelinated

Antonym:

unmyelinated ((of neurons) not myelinated)

Pertainym:

myelin (a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers)

 Context examples 

It is differentiated from the white matter by color of the tissues and the presence of more myelinated nerve cells in the white matter.

(Gray Matter, NCI Thesaurus)

It contains fewer myelinated fibers, but more nerve cell bodies, unmyelinated nerve fibers and blood vessels than the white matter.

(Gray Matter of the Spinal Cord, NCI Thesaurus)

Merkel cells are closely associated with an expanded terminal bulb of an afferent myelinated nerve fiber.

(Merkel cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Free nerve endings are widely distributed throughout the body, and are found as branches of unmyelinated, or lightly myelinated fibres grouped in bundles beneath the epithelium.

(Free Nerve Ending, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of brain tissue in the cerebrum consisting of myelinated axons and glial cells.

(Cerebral White Matter, NCI Thesaurus)

Broad plate of dense myelinated fibers that reciprocally interconnect regions of the cortex in all lobes with corresponding regions of the opposite hemisphere.

(Corpus Callosum, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The white myelinated fibers in the hippocampus adjacent to the wall of the lateral ventricle.

(Alveus, NCI Thesaurus)