grey matter

英 [ˈɡreɪ mætə(r)]

美 [ˈɡreɪ mætər]

n.  (人的)头脑，脑子

牛津词典

noun

• （人的）头脑，脑子
  a person's intelligence

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 gray matter


• N-UNCOUNT 头脑；智力
  You can refer to your intelligence or your brains asgrey matter.
  1. ...an unsolved mathematical equation which has caused his grey matter to work overtime.
     他长时间思考的一道悬而未决的数学方程式

英英释义

noun

• greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers
  Synonym:gray mattergrey substancegray substancesubstantia grisea

双语例句

• It is the building block of human brain tissue and is particularly abundant in the grey matter of the brain and retina.
  它是构建人的脑组织的重要原料，大量存在于大脑灰质和视网膜中。
• Researchers then performed MRI scans on the adults and it was revealed that new grey matter had formed in the left hemisphere of their brains.
  研究人员又对成人进行核磁共振扫描，表明新的灰质在他们左半脑形成。
• Encourage the older patients to play card games or do simple jigsaw puzzles-anything that keeps the grey matter in use.
  鼓励老年病人打牌或做拼板游戏等事情，只要让他们动脑子就行。
• When the scientists compared the brains of taxi drivers with those of other drivers, they found the taxi drivers had more grey matter in the area of the brain associated with memory.
  科学家将出租车司机的大脑与其他司机进行比对，发现出租车司机的大脑记忆层有更多的灰色神经组织。
• The aggregate of cytoplasmic or extranuclear genetic material in an organism. According to the degree of seperation of the telencephalic grey matter and formation of the anterior horns, severity of the malformation can be estimated.
  胞质团有机体中细胞质或核外基因物质的集聚物根据端脑灰质团块分裂和前角形成的程度可判断畸形的严重程度。
• We believe this area of the brain increased in grey matter volume because of the huge amount or data they have to memorize.
  我们相信，由于出租车司机需要记住大量的信息数据，因此这一脑区的脑灰质容积会不断增加。
• It's not clear whether using social networks boosts grey matter or if those with certain brain structures are good at making friends, say researchers.
  研究人员称，目前尚不清楚是社交网站促进了脑部物质的生长，还是脑部结构决定了他们是否擅长社交。
• Those who used spatial navigation strategies ( i.e.the non-GPS method) had increased activity and a greater volume of22) grey matter in the hippocampus than those who relied on GPS.
  使用空间导航法（即非GPS法）的人，他们的大脑活动更为活跃，海马体的灰质也比GPS使用者的多。
• 3D-DOCTOR software was used to make threshold segmentation and to reconstruct spinal cord, grey matter and bilateral corticospinal tracts ( CSTs) of rat.
  利用3D-DOCTOR软件进行阈值分割并对大鼠脊髓、脊髓灰质、双侧皮质脊髓束结构进行三维重建，在PC机上对重建结构进行任意角度的观察，切割和测量。
• They found that the PD patients with mild cognitive impairment showed a trend toward reduced grey matter in the cingulate area, a brain region associated with cognitive performance.
  他们发现伴有轻微认知障碍PD患者的扣带回灰质有减少的趋势，这一区域与人的认知功能有关。