brain tissue
Cerebral organic material
Brain tissue is the soft, complex biological matter that makes up the brain, consisting of neurons, glial cells, and blood vessels.
It's the physical substance responsible for thought, memory, sensation, and bodily control.
In medical and scientific contexts, brain tissue appears in discussions of injury, disease, or research: The scan revealed damaged brain tissue from the stroke.
Informally, someone might reference brain tissue when talking about intelligence or mental effort.
- astrocytesStar-shaped brain support cells
- neuronsSignal-transmitting brain cells
- nerve cellsSignal-transmitting body units
- neuron firingNerve cell transmitting signal
- white matterPale neural fiber tissue
hippocampus · frontal lobe · gray matter · grey matter · Alzheimer's disease · cerebral cortex · microglia · corpus callosum · parietal lobe · basal ganglia · synapses · dendrites · limbic system · thalamus · spinal cord · axons · autopsy · cells
- tissuesadipose, bone, connective, dense, elastic
- brain anatomycerebrum, cerebellum, brainstem, cortex, neurons
- neuroanatomycerebellum, cerebral cortex, thalamus, hypothalamus, brainstem
- neuroscienceneuron, MRI, neurons, synapses, dendrite
- brain partscerebellum, hippocampus, brainstem, thalamus, hypothalamus
- biospecimensblood samples, DNA samples, saliva samples, biological samples, specimens
brain tissuebone tissue
Minerite connite
muscle tissue · connective tissue · cardiac tissue · cartilage · bone
brain tissuebone
Hard skeletal tissue
skull · meninges · blood · dura mater
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