What is another word for gray matter?
Synonyms for gray matter
gray mat·ter
This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word gray matter.
Princeton's WordNet
grey matter, gray matter, grey substance, gray substance, substantia griseanoun
greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons
Synonyms:
grey substance, substantia grisea, grey matter, gray substance
Matched Categories
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
gray matter
Synonyms:
substantia grisea NH3
Suggested Resources
gray matter
Song lyrics by gray matter -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by gray matter on the Lyrics.com website.
How to use gray matter in a sentence?
Our study has found a significant decrease in gray matter pruning in the frontal default mode network, which is involved in higher cognitive functions, such as the planning and controlling of social behaviors.
The more people drank, the less the volume of their gray matter, brain volume reduces with age and more severely with dementia. Smaller brain volume also predicts worse performance on memory testing.
If you're not a dancer and you start taking some dance classes, you might see really a spike in your gray matter in your brain, you are waking up new neurons and making new connections that you haven't made before.
These stress-signaling pathways get released and they rapidly impair the higher cognitive functions of the prefrontal cortex that includes things like working memory, with chronic stress, you actually lose gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, in sadly the exact regions that are involved with inhibiting the stress response and those areas that give you insight that you’re needing help.
What Oxitec is trying to spin is that it's highly improbable that there will be negative consequences of this foreign DNA entering someone that's bitten by an Oxitec mosquito, i'm on their side, in that consequences are highly unlikely. But to say that there's no genetically modified DNA that might get into a human, that's kind of a gray matter.
Translation
Find a translation for the gray matter synonym in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"gray matter." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 2 May 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/gray+matter>.
Discuss these gray matter synonyms with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In