Meaning of myelinophagia | Babel Free

Definitions

Destruction of myelin (as if eaten away).

uncountable

Examples

“In addition, formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded samples of a sciatic nerve of a dog suffering from degenerative neuropathy of unknown origin, characterized by multifocal spheroid formation, dilatation of myelin sheaths and myelinophagia was included to compare the Schwann cell phenotypes in injured peripheral nerve and brain.”

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