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.
It is also the myelin that is responsible for the white appearance of the white matter. 60 percent of the brain is comprised of white matter. Summary: 1. Grey matter is made up of nerve cell bodies, and white matter is made up of fibers. 2. Unlike the white matter, the neurons of grey matter do not have extended axons.