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.
white matter-whitish nervous tissue of the CNS consisting of neurons and their myelin sheaths. substantia alba. nerve tissue, nervous tissue-tissue composed of neurons. fibrous astrocyte-star-shaped cells with long processes; found in the white matter of the brain and spinal cord. nerve pathway, nerve tract, pathway, tract-a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain.