White-matter definition

Whitish nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, consisting chiefly of myelinated nerve fibers.
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Whitish nerve tissue of the brain and spinal cord, consisting chiefly of medullated nerve fibers.
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Whitish nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, consisting chiefly of myelinated nerve fibers.
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The whitish tissue of the vertebrate brain and spinal cord, made up chiefly of nerve fibers (axons) covered in myelin sheaths.
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(neuroanatomy) A region of the central nervous system containing myelinated nerve fibres and no dendrites.
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White-matter Sentence Examples

  • These are pre-Mycenaean, and their only ornament is scratches, into which white matter has been pressed.

  • Exploring white matter tracts in band heterotopia using diffusion tractography.

  • Widespread white matter demyelination and subcortical lacunar infarcts are demonstrated by magnetic resonance imaging.

  • Note the red dot in the white matter just left of the caudate nucleus in the upper middle of the left hemisphere.

  • The above figures show the injection of dye and virus into the white matter tracts of the cerebellar peduncle of a mouse.

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