Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To destroy or remove the myelin sheath of (a nerve fiber), as through disease.
Wiktionary
- v. To remove the myelin sheath from a nerve
WordNet 3.0
- v. destroy the myelin sheath of
Etymologies
- de- + myelin + -ate (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Again, these chemicals demyelinate the Purkinje axon creating problems with balance, visual motor processing and integration and auditory processing.”
“If the name arachnoiditis makes you imagine “land of the spiders,” that’s no coincidence: the nerve network that the immune system begins to demyelinate looks something like a spider web’s intricate fibers spanning out from the lower spinal cord.”
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