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RANVIER'S NODE

A short interval in the myelin sheath of a nerve fibre, occurring between every two successive segments of the myelin sheath; at the knot, the axon is invested only by short, finger-like cytoplasmic processes of the two neighboring Schwann cells or, in the central nervous system, oligodendroglia cells. See: myelin sheath.
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