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.
Gray matter. The cortex of the brain which contains nerve cell bodies. The is in contrast to the white matter, the part of the brain that contains myelinated nerve fibres. The is so named because it in fact appears gray. The white matter is white because that is the colour of myelin, the insulation covering the nerve fibres.