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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Myelinated.
  • adjective Anatomy Having a medulla.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a medulla.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Furnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath.

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  • adjective anatomy myelinated
  • adjective anatomy Having a medulla

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  • adjective (of neurons) covered with a layer of myelin

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Examples

  • MEN2B is diagnosed clinically by the presence of mucosal neuromas of the lips and tongue, as well as medullated corneal nerve fibers (a finding seen on eye evaluation by an ophthalmologist), distinctive facial features with full lips, particular physical characteristics such as slender body habitus, and medullary cancer of the thyroid (MTC).

    Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2 2009

  • A, a medullated nerve fiber, showing the subdivision of the medullary sheath into cylindrical sections imbricated with their ends, a nerve corpuscle with an oval nucleus is seen between the neurilemma and the medullary sheath;

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • These are known as non-medullated axons and they have a gray instead of a white color.

    Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

  • Tuczek and Fuchs have confirmed the discoveries of Exner, that there are no medullated nerve fibers in the convolutions of the infant, and

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 Various

  • Flechzig has developed this law, that "medullated nerve fibers appear first in the region of the pyramidal tracts and corona radiata, and extend from them to the convolutions and periphery of the brain," being practically completed about the eighth year.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 Various

  • B, a medullated nerve fiber at a node or constriction of Ranvier, the axis cylinder passes uninterruptedly from one segment into the other, but the medullary sheath is interrupted.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • Here, according to Korolkow, the medullated fibers are distributed almost exclusively to the coats of the bloodvessels; while the non-medullated enter the lobules and ramify between the cells and even within them.

    XI. Splanchnology. 2i. The Liver 1918

  • The nerves are derived from the celiac plexus and are chiefly non-medullated.

    XI. Splanchnology. 4g. The Spleen 1918

  • The lymphatic vessels are supplied by nutrient vessels, which are distributed to their outer and middle coats; and here also have been traced many non-medullated nerves in the form of a fine plexus of fibrils.

    VIII. The Lymphatic System. 1. Introduction 1918

  • From the bottom of the flask-shaped cell the axon arises; this passes through the nuclear layer, and, becoming medullated, is continued as a nerve fiber in the subjacent white substance.

    IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon 1918

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