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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the cells having a membrane that composes a sheath around the axons of peripheral nerves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cell .
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- noun
Glia of theperipheral nervous system involved in many important aspects of peripheral nervebiology .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any cell that covers the nerve fibers in the peripheral nervous system and forms the myelin sheath
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Theodor Schwann.]
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After their discoverer Theodor Schwann (1810–1882), German physiologist.
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