gray matter

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The results showed that lower pulmonary gas exchange may be associated with cognitive dysfunction, as well as lower gray matter and white matter volumes in patients with long COVID.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2024

AFM attacks motor neurons in the spinal cord’s gray matter, which controls movement.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2024

"A person's gray matter thickness might be analyzed as a percentile of the thickness of healthy people for that age."

From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2024

The animals were, essentially, processing what just happened, allowing their tiny nuggets of gray matter to drift along and make sense of these curious humans’ images.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024

Then, out of nowhere, the parrot swoops down, his wings wide, and he grabs me, his talons digging into the ridges and convolutions of my gray matter.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman