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MYELINISATION

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

• MYELINISATION (noun)

Sense 1

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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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