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. myelinated. Consists of tracts that take information from deeper regions of the brain to the cerebral cortex for processing. From quizlet: The portions of the central nervous system that are abundant in axons rather than cell bodies of neurons. The color derives from the presence of the axon's myelin sheaths *white matter in cerebrum and cerebellum is on the INSIDE.