To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall. 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients: Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
White matter develops and changes across our life span in a pattern strikingly different from gray matter. We do not complete the formation of brain myelin until many years after birth, perhaps past 20 years of age; by contrast, we have our full complement of brain neurons at birth.
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.