"demyelinate" meaning in English

See demyelinate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /diːˈmaɪ(j)əlɪneɪt/ [UK] Forms: demyelinates [present, singular, third-person], demyelinating [participle, present], demyelinated [participle, past], demyelinated [past]
Etymology: From de- + myelin + -ate. Etymology templates: {{af|en|de-|myelin|-ate}} de- + myelin + -ate Head templates: {{en-verb}} demyelinate (third-person singular simple present demyelinates, present participle demyelinating, simple past and past participle demyelinated)
  1. (pathology) To remove the myelin sheath from a nerve Categories (topical): Pathology Derived forms: demyelination Translations (to remove the myelin sheath from a nerve): demyelinoida (Finnish), démyéliniser (French), demyelinisieren (German), dímhiailinigh (Irish), desmielinizar (Portuguese)

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de-",
        "3": "myelin",
        "4": "-ate"
      },
      "expansion": "de- + myelin + -ate",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From de- + myelin + -ate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "demyelinates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "demyelinating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "demyelinated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "demyelinated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "demyelinate (third-person singular simple present demyelinates, present participle demyelinating, simple past and past participle demyelinated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with de-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ate",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Irish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pathology",
          "orig": "en:Pathology",
          "parents": [
            "Disease",
            "Medicine",
            "Health",
            "Biology",
            "Healthcare",
            "Body",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "demyelination"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove the myelin sheath from a nerve"
      ],
      "id": "en-demyelinate-en-verb-uLSyLIGc",
      "links": [
        [
          "pathology",
          "pathology"
        ],
        [
          "myelin sheath",
          "myelin sheath"
        ],
        [
          "nerve",
          "nerve"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pathology) To remove the myelin sheath from a nerve"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "pathology",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to remove the myelin sheath from a nerve",
          "word": "demyelinoida"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to remove the myelin sheath from a nerve",
          "word": "démyéliniser"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to remove the myelin sheath from a nerve",
          "word": "demyelinisieren"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to remove the myelin sheath from a nerve",
          "word": "dímhiailinigh"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to remove the myelin sheath from a nerve",
          "word": "desmielinizar"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/diːˈmaɪ(j)əlɪneɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "demyelinate"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "demyelination"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de-",
        "3": "myelin",
        "4": "-ate"
      },
      "expansion": "de- + myelin + -ate",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From de- + myelin + -ate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "demyelinates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "demyelinating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "demyelinated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "demyelinated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "demyelinate (third-person singular simple present demyelinates, present participle demyelinating, simple past and past participle demyelinated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with de-",
        "English terms suffixed with -ate",
        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "en:Pathology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove the myelin sheath from a nerve"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pathology",
          "pathology"
        ],
        [
          "myelin sheath",
          "myelin sheath"
        ],
        [
          "nerve",
          "nerve"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pathology) To remove the myelin sheath from a nerve"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "pathology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/diːˈmaɪ(j)əlɪneɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to remove the myelin sheath from a nerve",
      "word": "demyelinoida"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to remove the myelin sheath from a nerve",
      "word": "démyéliniser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to remove the myelin sheath from a nerve",
      "word": "demyelinisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to remove the myelin sheath from a nerve",
      "word": "dímhiailinigh"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to remove the myelin sheath from a nerve",
      "word": "desmielinizar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "demyelinate"
}

Download raw JSONL data for demyelinate meaning in English (2.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.