Matter

(mat'-er). The substance, or stuff, of which anything is made; the term is used as the name of certain ti ues (as white matter, gray matter); also of certain morbid products (e. g., cheesy matter). Pus is colloquially designated as matter. M., Cheesy, the peculiar yellow cheese-like material, found in scrofulous and tuberculous glands, ti ues, and other structures. M., Gray (of Sommering). The locus niger of the eras cerebri.