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Definition of grey matter in English: grey matternoun mass noun1The darker tissue of the brain and spinal cord, consisting mainly of nerve cell bodies and branching dendrites. （大脑和脊髓中的）灰质。比较WHITE MATTER Compare with white matter Example sentencesExamples - In some tissues, such as gray matter in the brain, water also diffuses in an approximately spherical pattern.
- The more severe a patient's ADHD symptoms - as rated by parents and clinicians - the smaller were their frontal lobes, temporal gray matter, caudate nucleus and cerebellum.
- They had less grey matter in the frontal lobes and had enlarged ventricles.
- The brain has two types of tissue, white matter that holds the brain together and gray matter that contains ‘thinking cells.’
- Biopsies of Lewis' patients suggest that the virus had attacked the grey matter in the spinal cord, which contains nerve fibres running to and from the muscles.
- 1.1informal Intelligence.
〈非正式〉头脑，智力 I wish I had a little of her grey matter 我希望自己能有一点她那样的智慧。 Example sentencesExamples - They are still behaving as if they were the stupid party, even though they manifestly possess rather more grey matter, head for head, than Labour.
- College professors like Felix Bethel, who have considerable intellectual grey matter do not hold these beliefs.
- That way those of us who so desire - myself included - can go on working for as long as the body and the old grey matter permit.
- He holds degrees in criminal justice and psychology and I have already been picking his scholarly gray matter.
Synonyms intelligence, intellect, intellectual capacity, mental capacity, brains, brainpower, cleverness, wit, wits, powers of reasoning, reasoning, wisdom, sagacity, acumen, discernment, shrewdness, judgement, understanding, common sense, sense informal nous, savvy, braininess, upper storey
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