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MYELINISATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does myelinisation mean?
• MYELINISATION (noun)
The noun MYELINISATION has 1 sense:
1. the development of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiber
Familiarity information: MYELINISATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The development of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiber
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
myelinisation; myelinization
Hypernyms ("myelinisation" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
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