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Noun gray matter has 1 sense

• gray matter(n = noun.body) gray substance, grey matter, grey substance, substantia grisea - greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons; Array
is a kind of nerve tissue, nervous tissue

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gray matter

Vernunft, afferent neuron, arachnoid, arbor vitae, archipallium, autonomic nervous system, axon, bean, between brain, brain, brain stem, brains, central nervous system, cerebellar hemispheres, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, cerebrospinal fluid, cerebrum, conception, convolution, corpus callosum, corpus striatum, craniosacral nervous system, dendrite, diencephalon, discourse of reason, discursive reason, dura mater, effector organ, efferent neuron, encephalon, endbrain, esprit, fissure, folia, forebrain, fornix, frontal lobe, ganglion, glial cells, globus pallidus, gyrus, head, headpiece, hindbrain, hippocampus, hypothalamus, intellect, intellection, intellectual faculty, intelligence, internuncial neuron, lenticular nucleus, limbic lobe, little brain, lobe, mantle, medulla oblongata, medullary sheath, meninges, mens, mental capacity, mentality, mesencephalon, metencephalon, midbrain, mind, myelencephalon, neopallium, nerve, nerve trunk, nervous system, neuron, noddle, noggin, noodle, nous, occipital lobe, optic chiasm, organ of thought, pallium, parietal lobe, pate, peripheral nervous system, pia mater, pineal body, pituitary body, plexus, pons, power of reason, psyche, ratio, rationality, reason, reasoning, reasoning faculty, reticular system, rhombencephalon, sconce, seat of thought, sensation, sensorium, sensory, sensory area, sensory cell, smarts, solar plexus, spinal cord, subthalamus, synapse, telencephalon, temporal lobe, thalamus, thoracolumbar nervous system, understanding, ventricle, vermis, white matter, wit

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