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myelinate
  1. of, related to, or composed of myelin v

  2. (context transitive English) to coat with myelin

Usage examples of "myelinate".

When it came time to paint the spinal cord graft with a solution of myelinating cells, ig-Gabal, the Palace cloning chief, became rattled, and tried to hand the circulating nurse a syringe of unenriched oligodendrocytes.

The process of myelination is not quite complete at birth, and various functions do not develop until the corresponding nerves are myelinated.