Medullary Sheath
Of case and medullated nerve fiber. May also be referred to as myelin sheath.
A layer of myelin encasing (and insulating) the axons of medullated nerve fibers.
This concept's ID is @1~29830
Contains
- oligodendroglia
Tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath...
- axolemma
Outer membrane covering an axon.
- Ranvier's nodes
Small gaps in the myelin sheath of medullated axons.
- medulla
A white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve...