Definitions for myelins

myelins my·e·lin

Spelling: [mahy-uh-lin]
IPA: /ˈmaɪ ə lɪn/

Myelins is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 180 anagrams from letters in myelins (eilmnsy).

Definitions for myelins

noun

  1. a soft, white, fatty material in the membrane of Schwann cells and certain neuroglial cells: the substance of the myelin sheath.

Origin of myelins

First recorded in 1865-70; myel- + -in2

Examples for myelins

In MS, the amount and quality of myelin is abnormal, replaced by “sclerotic” plaques, the hallmark of the disease.

Alveolar cells commonly contain fat-droplets and, less frequently, myelin globules.

Between the neurolemma and the axis cylinder is the medullated sheath, composed of a fatty substance known as myelin.

Word Value for myelins
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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