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noun
Glia of the peripheral nervous system involved in many important aspects of peripheral nerve biology, including the myelination of axons
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
any cell that covers the nerve fibers in the peripheral nervous system and forms the myelin sheath
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: somatic cell, vegetative cell
History
After their discoverer Theodor Schwann (1810–1882), German physiologist.
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