See Also: Schmidt-Lanterman clefts(medicine)
Schmidt-Lanterman incisures(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Lanterman(medicine)
Branchial clefts(medicine)
gill clefts(medicine)
interneuromeric clefts(medicine)
Lanterman's incisures(medicine)
Lanterman's segments(medicine)
Maurer's clefts(medicine)

Schmidt-Lanterman clefts (medicine)


Schmidt-Lanterman clefts -->
Schmidt-Lanterman incisures
Funnel-shaped interruptions in the regular structure of the myelin sheath of nerve fibres, formerly interpreted as actual breaks in the sheath but shown by electron microscopy to correspond each to a strand of cytoplasm locally separating the two otherwise fused oligodendroglial (or, in peripheral nerves, Schwann cell) membranes composing the myelin sheath.

Synonym: Lanterman's incisures, Schmidt-Lanterman clefts.