Internodal segment

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Internodal segment
Diagram of longitudinal sections of medullated nerve fibers.
Medullated nerve fibers stained with silver nitrate.
Latin segmentum internodale
Gray's subject #183 727
Dorlands/Elsevier s_07/12727330

The portion of nerve fiber between two Nodes of Ranvier is called an internodal segment (or internode). The neurolemma or primitive sheath is not interrupted at the nodes, but passes over them as a continuous membrane.

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