Examples of highfalutin in a sentence. 1  a highfalutin way of talking. 2  his highfalutin paean to the working class failed to win over a crowd that wanted to hear down-to-earth proposals for economic relief.
White matter disease is the wearing away of tissue in the largest and deepest part of your brain due to aging. This tissue contains millions of nerve fibers, or axons, that connect other parts of the brain and spinal cord and signal your nerves to talk to one another.
It is believed that people who have risk factors for. heart disease (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking) also have a greater. risk for developing white matter disease. Controlling these risk factors by taking. medication and quitting smoking appear to slow the progression of the disease.