Gray matter

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Used for

substantia grisea

See for

central gray matter

Broader Terms

central nervous system

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

  • Gray matter is made up of the cell bodies of nerve cells.
  • The gray matter is in contrast to the white matter, the part of the brain that contains myelinated nerve fibers.
  • While A Spalding Gray Matter is an involving true-life story, it's also a grim one that could use more humor.
  • First, bi-orthogonal thickness (BT) is used to detect the simple case when the unknown class is NOT gray matter, since bi-orthogonal thickness of gray matter is never much larger than the BT of white matter.
  • Little gray and white cells Gray matter is not only central to cognition: it even serves as a popular shorthand for brain cells.

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