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myelinophagy

myelinophagy is the alternative form of myelinophagia.

Meaning of myelinophagia

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

Questions about myelinophagy

What is myelinophagy the alternative form of?
Myelinophagy is the alternative form of myelinophagia.

Words near myelinophagy in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: myelinophagy (page history and authors); myelinophagia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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