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A region of the central nervous system containing myelinated nerve fibres and no dendrites.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, neuroanatomy, neurology, neuroscience, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: substantia alba
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: nervous tissue, nerve tissue
Narrower terms: nerve pathway, tract, nerve tract, pathway
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Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
substància blanca
— region of the central nervous system
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Chinese Mandarin:
白質 /白质
(báizhì)
— region of the central nervous system
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Danish:
hvid substans
— region of the central nervous system
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Dutch:
witte stof
— region of the central nervous system
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Finnish:
valkea aine
— region of the central nervous system
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German:
weiße Substanz
— region of the central nervous system
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Hungarian:
fehérállomány
— region of the central nervous system
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Japanese:
白質
(hakushitsu)
— region of the central nervous system
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Korean:
백질
(baekjil)
— region of the central nervous system
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Northern Kurdish:
madeyê spî
— region of the central nervous system
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Macedonian:
бела маса
(bela masa)
— region of the central nervous system
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Malay:
jirim putih
— region of the central nervous system
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Polish:
istota biała
— region of the central nervous system
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Polish:
substancja biała
— region of the central nervous system
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Romanian:
substanță albă
— region of the central nervous system
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Russian:
бе́лое вещество́
(béloje veščestvó)
— region of the central nervous system
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Spanish:
sustancia blanca
— region of the central nervous system
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Spanish:
materia blanca
— region of the central nervous system