schwann cell

Schwann cell

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Definitions of schwann cell words

noun schwann cell a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath. 1
noun schwann cell any of the cells covering the myelin sheath that surrounds and insulates an axon of a nerve cell 0

before 1930

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1930-35; after T. Schwann, who first described it

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