medullary sheath

Questions about medullary sheath

What does medullary sheath mean?

medullary sheath means "a layer of myelin encasing (and insulating) the axons of medullated nerve fibers".

What is another word for medullary sheath?

Close synonyms include myelin sheath. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is medullary sheath a common word?

medullary sheath is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.