‖ myelon Anat.
(ˈmaɪəlɒn)
[a. Gr. µυελόν, late var. of µυελός marrow.]
Owen's name for the spinal cord. Hence ˈmyelonal, myeˈlonic adjs.
| 1846 Owen Lect. Anat. Vertebrate Anim. i. Fishes 172 This part is called the ‘brain’ or encephalon: the rest of the axis I term the ‘myelon’. Ibid. 174 At the bottom of the ventricle the myelonal canal is exposed. 1883 E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 680/2 The retina of the Molluscan cephalic eye,..unlike that of the Vertebrate myelonic eye, is essentially a modified area of the general epiderm. |