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myelinophagia

myelinophagia noun: destruction of myelin (as if eaten away).

Noun

myelinophagia (uncountable)

  1. Destruction of myelin (as if eaten away).
    • In addition, formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded samples of a sciatic nerve of a dog suffering from degenerative neuropathy of unknown origin, characterized by multifocal spheroid formation, dilatation of myelin sheaths and myelinophagia was included to compare the Schwann cell phenotypes in...2015 July 22, “Contribution of Schwann Cells to Remyelination in a Naturally Occurring Canine Model of CNS Neuroinflammation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of myelinophagia

From myelin + -o- + -phagia.

Questions about myelinophagia

What does myelinophagia mean?
Myelinophagia means destruction of myelin (as if eaten away).
What part of speech is myelinophagia?
Myelinophagia is a noun.

Words near myelinophagia in the dictionary

  1. myelinopathic
  2. myelinopathies
  3. myelinopathy
  4. myelinophage
  5. myelinophages
  6. myelinophagia
  7. myelinophagy
  8. myelinotoxic
  9. myelinotoxicity
  10. myelinotrophic
  11. myelins

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