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White matter(medicine)
White matter(health)
white-matter disease(medicine)
sclerosis of white matter(medicine)
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White matter (health)


Nerve tissue that is paler in color than gray matter because it contains nerve fibers with large amounts of insulating material (myelin). The white matter does not contain nerve cells. In the brain, the white matter lies within the gray layer of the cerebral cortex.