Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking a myelin sheath. Used of a nerve fiber.
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- adjective Not
myelinated .
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- adjective (of neurons) not myelinated
Etymologies
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Examples
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The researchers found that the fibres, called unmyelinated low-threshold mechanoreceptors
unknown title 2009
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These unmyelinated, specialized nerve fibers, called C-tactile fibers, each cover about one square centimeter of skin.
Suzie Heumann: Pleasure Fibers & Touch: Pleasuring Me Pleasures You 2009
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In relatively primitive organisms like clams, all nerves are unmyelinated.
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Those sensations are coming via unmyelinated nerves, and give you some idea of the level of sensation in an embryo.
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In humans, some nerves remain unmyelinated, and those holdovers from early evolutionary time can't be anesthetised.
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In relatively primitive organisms like clams, all nerves are unmyelinated.
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Those sensations are coming via unmyelinated nerves, and give you some idea of the level of sensation in an embryo.
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In humans, some nerves remain unmyelinated, and those holdovers from early evolutionary time can't be anesthetised.
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But there is a second slow-conducting nerve network of unmyelinated fibres, called C-tactile (CT), the role of which was unknown.
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These constricted unmyelinated regions are called nodes of Ran-vier (rahn-vee-ay), after the French histologist Louis Antoine
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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