demyelination

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ myelination or de- +‎ myelin +‎ -ation.

Noun

demyelination (countable and uncountable, plural demyelinations)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

demyelinating disease

Wikipedia

1. (biology, medicine) The removal of the myelin sheath from a nerve fibre, usually as a result of disease causing myelinolysis.

   Antonym: myelination

   Coordinate terms: hypomyelination, hypermyelination < dysmyelination

Related terms

• demyelinate
• demyelinization (much less common variant)
• myelinoclasis
• myelinolysis

Translations

removal of the myelin sheath

Arabic: إِزَالَة المَيَالِين (ʔizāla(t) al-mayālīn) Catalan: desmielinització f Czech: demyelinizace f French: démyélinisation (fr) f Greek: απομυελίνωση (el) f (apomyelínosi) Indonesian: demielinasi Portuguese: desmielinização f Spanish: desmielinización f Turkish: demiyelinizasyon (tr)