| 单词 | grey matter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrey matter grey matter n. the darker (less myelinated) of the two types of tissue of which the brain and spinal cord are composed, consisting mainly of nerve cell bodies and dendrites (cf. white matter n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1g(d)); (gen.) the active or intelligent part of the brain; intelligence, brain power. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > [noun] > grey matter grey matter1809 grey cells1845 cinerea1882 1809 Philos. Mag. 34 303 The cerebellum issues from fasciculi denominated processus cerebelli ad medullam, which are reinforced, but once only, by fibres furnished to them by the gray matter of what is called the corpus ciliare. 1866 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. xi. 279 In the Medulla oblongata the arrangement of the white and grey matter is substantially similar to what it is in the spinal cord; that is to say, the white matter is external, and the grey internal. But, in the cerebellum and cerebral hemispheres, the grey matter is external and the white internal. 1894 A. Robertson Nuggets 33 These..thoughts rushed over the grey matter of Bill's brain, as the wind rushes through the tree-tops. 1944 Horizon Mar. 172 The grey matter of the brain-rind was originally skin-tissue. 2007 Independent on Sunday 13 May (Review Suppl.) 3/1 No one with an ounce of grey matter nor a shred of dignity would remain in any ‘real’ magazine that functioned in this sub-soap-opera manner. < as lemmas |
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