White-matter meaning

In such cases the paths of degeneration are so neatly defined that, when the tissues are prepared after death by modern methods, they are plainly to be seen running along certain columns, the subdivisions of which in the normal state may hardly be distinguishable one from another: some run in strips along the periphery of the spinal cord, at its anterior, middle or posterior segments, as the case may be; in other cases such strips occur within its substance, whether along columns of cells or of white matter.

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.

nerve cell bodies are in the front pole of the white matter.