white matter
nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, which primarily contains myelinated fibers and is nearly white in color.: Compare gray matter (def. 1).
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How are molecules from dirt getting into white matter—and what are they doing up there?
Scientists Find Bacteria Where It Isn’t Supposed to Be: The Brain | Amanda Schaffer | March 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTDoes this mean that living, growing bacteria are crawling around in our white matter?
Scientists Find Bacteria Where It Isn’t Supposed to Be: The Brain | Amanda Schaffer | March 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the pedophile group, Cantor found significantly less white matter in two different regions, suggesting a connection deficit.
More gray tissue, greater white-matter integrity, thicker wires, more myelination.
World Science Festival: Can We Really Live to 1,000? | Casey Schwartz | June 5, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThese drops of water trickle to the floor, and occasionally the exuded white matter falls.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. Schoolcraft
It is composed of a mass of gray matter surrounded by a covering of white matter.
Your Mind and How to Use It | William Walker AtkinsonThe outer portion of the most peripheral layer of cells has already begun to be converted into the white matter.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland BalfourThe dorsal side of the cord is composed of nerve-fibres or white matter.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland BalfourHypersthesia, I suppose, or derangement of the white matter.
My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum | Herman Charles Merivale
British Dictionary definitions for white matter
the whitish tissue of the brain and spinal cord, consisting mainly of myelinated nerve fibres: Technical name: substantia alba Compare grey matter
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Scientific definitions for white matter
The whitish tissue of the vertebrate brain and spinal cord, made up chiefly of nerve fibers (axons) covered in myelin sheaths. Compare gray matter.
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