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adj. - (of neurons) covered with a layer of a white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers

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  • Ten times as many can be delivered by the large myelinated nerve fibers.
  • Hodgkin on nerve conduction, but also with R. Stämfli on myelinated nerve fibres.
  • The non-specific association areas are 8 layers thick and made up of non-myelinated neurons.
  • Placed along the nerves in the limbs of the body, they tell myelinated axons during development whether to go left or right.
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