white matter
White matter
white matter
Noun
1. whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths
(synonym) substantia alba
(hypernym) nervous tissue, nerve tissue
(hyponym) nerve pathway, tract, nerve tract, pathway
(substance-holonym) central nervous system, CNS, systema nervosum centrale
(part-meronym) fibrous astrocyte
White matter
The part of the brain that contains myelinated nerve fibers. The white matter is white because it is the color of myelin, the insulation covering the nerve fibers. The white matter is as opposed to the gray matter (the cortex of the brain which contains nerve cell bodies).
white matter
Eng: white matter
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