NOUN
- greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons
How To Use gray matter In A Sentence
- The tragedy is that you have to twist the knife in your own gray matter to make this defense work.
- In the film "Connected" we're informed our cranium is too small to accommodate the convolutions of gray matter we're producing with our hyper-expanding awareness. Ann Reynolds: Leonardo Was A Transhumanist
- Two pairs of medial and lateral longitudinal striae of white matter are embedded within the gray matter of the indusium, creating four fine ridges.
- You could argue that by offloading data onto silicon, we free our own gray matter for more germanely "human" tasks like brainstorming and daydreaming. Your Outboard Brain Knows All
- The axons come from large cells in the stratum opticum and stratum lemnisci and sweep ventrally around the central gray matter of the aqueduct, cross the raphé in the fountain decussation of Meynert and turn downward in the tegmentum in the ventral longitudinal bundle. IX. Neurology. 1F. Pathways from the Brain to the Spinal Cord
- Some gray matter, such as the thalamus, has an intimate back-and-forth relationship with the cerebral cortex.
- In the decussation of the pyramids, the bundles of corticospinal fibers are interposed between the ventral gray matter and the central gray substance.
- Huber's observations, 66; author's experiments with _Lasius niger_, 66; claviger beetles recognized and petted by, 73; gray matter in the brain of, 99; nerve-cells and nerve-filaments in the brain cortex of, 99; The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
- The gray matter of the caudate nucleus bends upon itself, and its other end is the amygdaloid nucleus ( "almond-shaped," again because of its shape). The Human Brain
- Yes, you are referring to a spinal cord level reaction that occurs as the autonomics synapse on the interneurons in the 2nd, 3rd or 4th lamina of the gray matter of the spinal cord where endorphins are produced causing the feeling of well being and pain relief. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
