Usually means: Brain tissue containing nerve fibers.
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  1. white matter: Merriam-Webster
  2. white matter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. white matter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. white matter: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. white matter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  1. white matter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. white matter: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Matter, white, White matter: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  7. white matter: Medical dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (white matter)

noun:  (neuroanatomy) A region of the central nervous system containing myelinated nerve fibres and no dendrites.

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