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  • noun A fibrous network of nervous tissue that forms the gray matter of the brain

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  • noun 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

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Examples

  • Ed, back up for a minute - are you saying that as a result of the literacy training, the grey matter in the adult sample increased (you wrote: “had more grey matter in five regions towards the back of their brains”) as in somehow added more neuronal cell bodies, neuropil, etc.,

    Literacy News – 55th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

  • Ed, back up for a minute - are you saying that as a result of the literacy training, the grey matter in the adult sample increased (you wrote: "had more grey matter in five regions towards the back of their brains") as in somehow added more neuronal cell bodies, neuropil, etc.,

    Literacy News – 64th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

  • Ed, back up for a minute - are you saying that as a result of the literacy training, the grey matter in the adult sample increased (you wrote: “had more grey matter in five regions towards the back of their brains”) as in somehow added more neuronal cell bodies, neuropil, etc.,

    Literacy News – 59th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

  • Ed, back up for a minute - are you saying that as a result of the literacy training, the grey matter in the adult sample increased (you wrote: “had more grey matter in five regions towards the back of their brains”) as in somehow added more neuronal cell bodies, neuropil, etc.,

    Literacy News – 62th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

  • Ed, back up for a minute - are you saying that as a result of the literacy training, the grey matter in the adult sample increased (you wrote: “had more grey matter in five regions towards the back of their brains”) as in somehow added more neuronal cell bodies, neuropil, etc.,

    Literacy News – 53th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

  • Ed, back up for a minute - are you saying that as a result of the literacy training, the grey matter in the adult sample increased (you wrote: “had more grey matter in five regions towards the back of their brains”) as in somehow added more neuronal cell bodies, neuropil, etc.,

    Literacy News – 60th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

  • Ed, back up for a minute - are you saying that as a result of the literacy training, the grey matter in the adult sample increased (you wrote: “had more grey matter in five regions towards the back of their brains”) as in somehow added more neuronal cell bodies, neuropil, etc.,

    Literacy News – 61th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

  • Ed, back up for a minute - are you saying that as a result of the literacy training, the grey matter in the adult sample increased (you wrote: “had more grey matter in five regions towards the back of their brains”) as in somehow added more neuronal cell bodies, neuropil, etc.,

    Literacy News – 52th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

  • Ed, back up for a minute - are you saying that as a result of the literacy training, the grey matter in the adult sample increased (you wrote: “had more grey matter in five regions towards the back of their brains”) as in somehow added more neuronal cell bodies, neuropil, etc.,

    Literacy News – 51th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

  • Ed, back up for a minute - are you saying that as a result of the literacy training, the grey matter in the adult sample increased (you wrote: "had more grey matter in five regions towards the back of their brains") as in somehow added more neuronal cell bodies, neuropil, etc.,

    Literacy News – 65th Edition « News « Literacy News 2009

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