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White matter   /waɪt mˈætər/   Listen
White matter

noun
1.
Whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths.  Synonym: substantia alba.






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"White matter" Quotes from Famous Books



... striped with the finest parallel zones of colour, like an agate, and which sometimes passes into the nature of pitchstone; the interstices between the nodules of obsidian are generally filled by soft white matter, resembling pumiceous ashes. Thirdly, the whole substance of the bounding rock suddenly passes into an angulo-concretionary mass of obsidian. Such masses (as well as the small nodules) of obsidian are of a ...
— Volcanic Islands • Charles Darwin

... cell to every four hundred red ones. The white cells are the body-guards. They change their shape and are able to crawl through the walls of the capillaries. Wherever the body is hurt, they collect in large numbers and eat the germs which are always trying to get into the body through sores. The white matter called pus in a sore is largely made of white blood cells which came there to fight the germs and were killed ...
— Health Lessons - Book 1 • Alvin Davison



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