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.
Both white and gray matter are found in the brain and spinal cord. In the spinal cord, white matter sits external to the gray matter, while it lies deeper to the gray matter of the cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain. To unlock this lesson you must be a Study.com Member. Create your account.