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- English Word Myelin Definition A soft white substance constituting the medullary sheats of nerve fibers, and composed mainly of cholesterin, lecithin, cerebrin, albumin, and some fat.
- English Word Myelin Definition One of a group of phosphorized principles occurring in nerve tissue, both in the brain and nerve fibers.
- English Word Myelitis Definition Inflammation of the spinal marrow or its membranes.
- English Word Myelocoele Definition The central canal of the spinal cord.
- English Word Myelogenic Definition Derived from, or pertaining to, the bone marrow.
- English Word Myeloid Definition Resembling marrow in appearance or consistency; as, a myeloid tumor.
- English Word Myeloidin Definition A substance, present in the protoplasm of the retinal epithelium cells, and resembling, if not identical with, the substance (myelin) forming the medullary sheaths of nerve fibers.
- English Word Myelon Definition The spinal cord. (Sometimes abbrev. to myel.)
- English Word Myelonal Definition Of or pertaining to the myelon; as, the myelonal, or spinal, nerves.
- English Word Myeloneura Definition The Vertebrata.
- English Word Myeloplaces Definition of Myeloplax
- English Word Myeloplax Definition One of the huge multinucleated cells found in the marrow of bone and occasionally in other parts; a giant cell. See Osteoclast.
- English Word Myeloplaxes Definition of Myeloplax
- English Word Mygale Definition A genus of very large hairy spiders having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii).
- English Word Myips Definition See Myope.
- English Word Mylodon Definition An extinct genus of large slothlike American edentates, allied to Megatherium.
- English Word Mylohyoid Definition Pertaining to, or in the region of, the lower jaw and the hyoid apparatus; as, the mylohyoid nerve.
- English Word Myna Definition Any one of numerous species of Asiatic starlings of the genera Acridotheres, Sturnopastor, Sturnia, Gracula, and allied genera. In habits they resemble the European starlings, and like them are often caged and taught to talk. See Hill myna, under Hill, and Mino bird.
- English Word Mynchen Definition A nun.
- English Word Mynchery Definition A nunnery; -- a term still applied to the ruins of certain nunneries in England.