English

heminode

From hemi- + node.

Formed from hemi- + node

Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one, whole’

Proto-Indo-European *sēmi ‘half’

English hemi-

Latin nōdus ‘a knot (in rope)’

Middle English node ‘knot, tie’

English node

Today it means

noun The end of a myelinated segment of a neuron

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / heminode