gray matter
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Some evidence suggests a partial recovery of gray matter volume postmenopause, potentially reflecting compensatory neuroplastic processes.
From Science Daily • Oct. 21, 2025
AFM attacks motor neurons in the spinal cord’s gray matter, which controls movement.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2024
The animals were, essentially, processing what just happened, allowing their tiny nuggets of gray matter to drift along and make sense of these curious humans’ images.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024
A virtual reconstruction of how the current from the device moves through the body showed the current reaches spinal gray matter in the spinal cord, but does not reach the brain itself.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023
And the three pounds of gray matter he carried around in his skull served him well in the classroom.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
