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nervous tissue
(redirected from Neural tissue)

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Noun1.nervous tissue - tissue composed of neuronsnervous tissue - tissue composed of neurons          
animal tissue - the tissue in the bodies of animals
nervous system, systema nervosum - the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells
fasciculus, fiber bundle, fibre bundle, fascicle - a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)
neuropil, neuropile - the complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system's grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded
gray matter, gray substance, grey matter, grey substance, substantia grisea - greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons
substantia alba, white matter - whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths


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He said that the cells from neural tissue are much easier to reprogram than skin cells, and are less prone to mutations.
The neural tissues within the brain all form an orchestra of some sort, each working tangent and overlapping to another but never actually colliding ?
Shaw's group used magnetic resonance imaging to gauge the thickness of neural tissue at more than 40,000 sites throughout the cortex.
 
 
 
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