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GREY MATTER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons

Synonyms:

gray matter; gray substance; grey matter; grey substance; substantia grisea

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("grey matter" is a kind of...):

nerve tissue; nervous tissue (tissue composed of neurons)

Meronyms (substance of "grey matter"):

neuropil; neuropile (the complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system's grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded)

Holonyms ("grey matter" is a substance of...):

cerebral cortex; cerebral mantle; cortex; pallium (the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum)

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