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schwann cell

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English

Syllables
schwan-n -cell
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Glia of the peripheral nervous system involved in many important aspects of peripheral nerve biology, including the myelination of axons

Etymology

After their discoverer Theodor Schwann (1810–1882), German physiologist.

Inflected Forms

Schwann cells (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Schwannian

Synonyms

cell of Schwann lemnoblast neurolemmocyte

Questions

What does schwann cell mean?
Glia of the peripheral nervous system involved in many important aspects of peripheral nerve biology, including the myelination of axons
Where does schwann cell come from?
After their discoverer Theodor Schwann (1810–1882), German physiologist.

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