See Also: Ranvier(dictionary)
node of Ranvier(medicine)
Ranvier, Louis(medicine)
Ranvier's segment(medicine)
Ranvier's plexus(medicine)
Ranvier's nodes(medicine)
Ranvier's node(medicine)
Ranvier's disks(medicine)
Ranvier's crosses(medicine)
Ranvier, Louise Antoine(medicine)

Ranvier (iou)



Ranvier noun. L19.
[L. A. Ranvier (1835-1922), French histologist.]
Anatomy. node of Ranvier, Ranvier's node, each of the interruptions of the myelin which occur regularly along the sheaths of myelinated nerves between adjacent Schwann cells.