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What is the medical term meaning Benign tumor of the peripheral nerve sheath?
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A benign peripheral nerve sheath tumor is a schwannoma or neurofibroma.
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What is the medical terminology combining form meaning sheath?
The medical terminology combining form meaning sheath is "thec/o".
What is the medical term meaning without a sheath?
Athecal
What is neurilemania?
Neurilemmomas are benign, encapsulated tumors of the nerve sheath.
What is the medical term meaning tumor of the tendon sheath or joint capsule commonly found in the wrist?
Ganglion cyst
The Schwann cell forms a myelin sheath around the?
axon of a neuron in the peripheral nervous system.Schwann cells form a myelin sheath around the Axon.
It insulates the axon of the neuron?
An insulating layer that surrounds the axon is a myelin sheath.
Gaps in myelin sheath?
You can have benign tumors of myelin sheath cells, like astrocytoma. Nerve cells do not divide and so you do not get tumors of nerve cells. Also destruction of the myelin sheath is the cause of MS (multiple sclerosis).
What is axonal substance called?
Myelin is a fatty sheath around axons found in the peripheral nervous system.
What does fatty sheath do?
fatty sheath is a layer of proteins surrounding the axons in the perisheral nervous system
How does a myelin sheath form?
The myelin sheath is an extruded plasma membrane wrapped in a spiral fashion around a nerve axon. The myelin membranes are part of the Schwann cells of the peripheral nervous system.
What is the medical term meaning white protective covering over nerve cells?
The protective covering over some nerve cells is called the myelin sheath.
What forms myelin sheath?
The glial cells: oligodendrocytes for central nervous system and schwann cells for peripheral nervous system.
