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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
node of Ranvier /ˈrɑːnvɪəɪ/

▶noun Anatomy a gap in the myelin sheath of a nerve, between adjacent Schwann cells.

– origin C19: named after the French histologist Louis Antoine Ranvier.

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