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centrum semiovale

The mass of white matter composing the interior of the cerebral hemisphere. The name refers to the general shape of the core of white matter on horizontal sections of the brain.

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cerebral white matter

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999