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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Whitish nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, consisting chiefly of myelinated nerve fibers.
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- noun neuroanatomy A region of the
central nervous system containingmyelinated nerve fibres and nodendrites
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- noun whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths
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