Healthy nodes of Ranvier are crucial for action potential propagation along myelinated axons, both in the central and in the peripheral nervous system. Surprisingly, the node of Ranvier has often been neglected when describing CNS disorders, with most pathologies classified simply as being due to n...
2.a centering point of component parts. 3.Anat.a knotlike mass of tissue:lymph node. 4.Pathol.circumscribed swelling. 5.Bot.a part of a stem that bears a leaf or branch. 6.Math.Also calledjoint,knot.in interpolation, one of the points at which the values of a function are assigned....