white matter
The Oxford Companion to the Body
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white matter That part of the
nervous system which is composed mainly of the fibres or
axons of nerve cells, most of which are covered by whitish, fatty sheaths (composed of
myelin), hence appearing white in freshly-cut
brain or
spinal cord. The axons in the white matter are responsible for conducting information from and to the nerve cell bodies that are concentrated in the
grey matter.
See
myelin;
nerves.
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Commentary: LatAm failure is all politics.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...whereupon Miguel Angel Rodriguez, former president of Costa Rica, picked up the point, and explained that Latin...governments of Humberto Castelo Branco (1964-67), Artur da Costa e Silva (1967-69) and Emilio Garrastazu Medici (1969...
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COMMENTARY: LATAM FAILURE IS ALL POLITICS
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/1/2003; 700+ words
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Artur da Costa e Silva
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Humberto Castelo Branco
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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João Batista de Oliveira Figueiredo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...named his superior, General Em í lio Garrastazu M é dici, to succeed ailing President (General) Artur da Costa e Silva (October 30, 1969), he made Figueiredo chief of the presidential military staff. This put him in the Planalto...
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Emílio Garrastazú Médici
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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