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What is white matter?

What is white matter? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (neuroanatomy) A region of the central nervous system containing myelinated nerve fibres and no dendrites
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In this article, we explore the ability of CARS microscopy to probe axonal myelin in live spinal cord white matter isolated from guinea pigs.
Nearly all cases of PML involve the cerebral white matter, but it may also involve white matter of cerebellum, brainstem and spinal cord.
There was also a single, small cerebral metastasis in the white matter of the posterior occipital lobe.
Nerve fibers found in the cortex's underlying white matter carry messages into the brain for additional processing.
The time-resolved emission features of GBM were found to be distinct from those of the normal brain tissues, white matter and cortex.
On coronal sections, a mass measuring 4 cm in diameter was observed in the right frontal lobe white matter.

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