Schwann cell

Schwann cell
noun
any cell that covers the nerve fibers in the peripheral nervous system and forms the myelin sheath
• Hypernyms: ↑somatic cell, ↑vegetative cell

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\\ˈshw]än-, ˈshf], ˈshv]\ noun
Usage: usually capitalized S
Etymology: after Theodor Schwann died 1882 German naturalist
: a cell of the neurilemma of a nerve fiber

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Biol.
a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
[1930-35; after T. SCHWANN, who first described it]

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Schwann cell /shvan sel/ (zoology)
noun
A large nucleated cell that lays down myelin in peripheral nerve fibres
ORIGIN: Theodor Schwann (1810–82), German physiologist

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Schwann cell «shwahn, shvahn»,
any one of the cells that form a myelin sheath around the nerve fibers or axons in the peripheral nervous system.
╂[< Theodor Schwann, 1810-1882, a German anatomist]

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