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Fasciculus

noun
(pl. fasciculi)
1.
A bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers).  Synonyms: fascicle, fiber bundle, fibre bundle.






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"Fasciculus" Quotes from Famous Books



... will, known as the voluntary muscles, appear in the form of fleshy structures, red in color, and with fibers of various degrees of fineness, and are composed of fasciculi, or bundles of fibers, united by connective or cellular tissue, each fasciculus being composed of smaller ones but united in a similar manner to compose the larger formations, each of which is enveloped by a structure of similar nature known as the sarcolemma. Many of the muscles are united to the bones by the direct contact of their fleshy fibers, but in other instances ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... gland has occasionally given much trouble, by being mistaken for the vessel and cleaned, while the ligature has even been placed on a carefully isolated fasciculus of muscular fibres. ...
— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell

... upon several superposed layers, the vertebral column is doubly recurved in order that it may have more strength, and, finally, rachidion nerves issue from each vertebra in order to regulate the contraction of each muscular fasciculus according to the requirements of equilibrium. The trick is so easy that we have seen youths belonging to the Ligue d'Education Physique immediately imitate Mr. David after seeing him operate ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 • Various

... 'Siluria.' Sir Roderick Murchison. 5th ed., pp. 21-46. (2) 'Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks.' Sedgwick. Introduction to the 3d Fasciculus of the 'Descriptions of British Palaeozoic Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum,' by F. M'Coy, pp. i-xcviii, 1855. (3) 'Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian Fossils in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge.' Salter. With a ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson



Words linked to "Fasciculus" :   nervus, systema nervosum, nervous tissue, nerve, fibre bundle, nerve tissue, nervous system, trigonum cerebrale, fornix, fascicle



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