单词 | demyelinate |
释义 | demyelinate in British English (diːˈmaɪəlɪˌneɪt) verb (transitive) medicine to remove the myelin sheath from (a nerve fibre) demyelinate in American English (diˈmaɪəlɪnˌeɪt) verb transitiveWord forms: deˈmyelinˌated or deˈmyelinˌating to destroy or damage the myelin sheath of (nerves) Derived forms demyelination (deˌmyeliˈnation) noun demyelinate in American English (dɪˈmaiələˌneit) transitive verbWord forms: -nated, -nating to obliterate or remove the myelin sheath from (a nerve or nerves) Word origin [1960–65; de- + myelin + -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1960–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: deinstitutionalize, go-go, proxemics, tag question, zip code-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate) |
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