white matter

1. 1.

   whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths

   Synonymssubstantia alba

   Broadernervous tissue

   Narrowernerve pathway

   Partsfibrous astrocyte

Questions about white matter

What does white matter mean?

white matter means "whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths".

What is another word for white matter?

Close synonyms include substantia alba. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is white matter a common word?

white matter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.