MYELINIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myelinization mean? 

• MYELINIZATION (noun)
  The noun MYELINIZATION has 1 sense:

1. the development of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiber

  Familiarity information: MYELINIZATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYELINIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The development of a myelin sheath around a nerve fiber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

myelinisation; myelinization

Hypernyms ("myelinization" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)