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SUBSTANTIA GRISEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does substantia grisea mean?
• SUBSTANTIA GRISEA (noun)
The noun SUBSTANTIA GRISEA has 1 sense:
1. greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons
Familiarity information: SUBSTANTIA GRISEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
gray matter; gray substance; grey matter; grey substance; substantia grisea
Hypernyms ("substantia grisea" is a kind of...):
nerve tissue; nervous tissue (tissue composed of neurons)
Meronyms (substance of "substantia grisea"):
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 ("substantia grisea" 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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