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Schmidt-Lanterman incisures
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Diagram of longitudinal sections of medullated nerve fibers. (Incisure labeled at upper left.)
Gray's	subject #183 727
Dorlands/Elsevier	i_05/12447772

Oblique clefts may be seen in the medullary sheath, subdividing it into irregular portions, which are termed Schmidt-Lanterman incisures (or clefts of schmidt-lanterman, segments of Lantermann, medullary segments.)

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• Dictionary at eMedicine Schmidt-Lanterman+incisures
• Slide at umdnj.edu

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Nervous tissue - edit

Neurons (gray matter): soma, axon (axon hillock, axoplasm, axolemma, neurofibril/neurofilament), dendrite (Nissl body, dendritic spine) types (bipolar, pseudounipolar, multipolar, pyramidal, Purkinje, Renshaw, granule) Synapses: neuropil, boutons, synaptic vesicle, neuromuscular junction, electrical synapse Sensory receptors: Free nerve ending, Meissner's corpuscle, Merkel nerve ending, Muscle spindle, Pacinian corpuscle, Ruffini ending, Olfactory receptor neuron, Photoreceptor, Hair cell, Taste bud Glial cells: astrocyte, ependymal cells, microglia, radial glia Myelination (white matter): Schwann cell, oligodendrocyte, nodes of Ranvier, internode, Schmidt-Lanterman incisures, neurolemma closely related Connective tissue: epineurium, perineurium, endoneurium, nerve fascicle, meninges