What is gray matter?
The gray matter is called the gray matter. Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as the nervous tissue made mostly of nerve-cell bodies and their short processes.
What it is
- The nervous tissue made mostly of nerve-cell bodies and their short processes.
- Appears gray in unstained tissue.
- The site where signals originate and are processed.
Where it is
- Forms the cortex on the outside of the cerebrum and cerebellum.
- Forms deeper 'nuclei' within the brain.
- Forms the central H-shaped column of the spinal cord.
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