Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun nodes_of_ranvier

1 sense of nodes of ranvier

Sense 1
Ranvier's nodes, nodes of Ranvier -- (small gaps in the myelin sheath of medullated axons)
       => opening, gap -- (an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall")