myelin

myelo- +‎ -in. From Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós, “marrow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪəlɪn/

myelin (countable and uncountable, plural myelins)

1. (neuroanatomy) A white, fatty material, composed of lipids and lipoproteins, that surrounds the axons of nerves.
   • 1868 January, Edmund Montgomery, “On the Formation of so-called Cells in Animal Bodies”, in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 203:

     As the result of prolonged action of water upon myelin, bird's-nests-cells are also said to be produced, and we are certain we have seen, as the result of such prolonged action of water, the appearances thus compared.

• myelopathy
• myelitis

• myelin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• myelin in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

myelin m

1. myelin

• myelinový m