fascicule
nounEtymology From French fascicule, from Latin fasciculus.
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An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.
- In Piers' hotel room at Avignon there was a ton of these fascicules, some of which I could even remember having heard him deliver in those far-off days.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 104:
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Obsolete A bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus.
- Perlia advocates, however, the assumption that the posterior longitudinal fascicule connecting the oculo-motor center with the medulla oblongata, […]1893 November 25, Charles Zimmerman, “The Relation of the Ocular Nerves to the Brain”, in The Medical and Surgical Reporter, page 812:
- In the large tactile hairs, or sinus hairs, — i.e., those provided with a blood-sinus, — several nerve-fibres form a fascicule and enter the follicle near the base; […]1895, Charles E. Sajous, “Normal Histology and Microscopical Technology”, in Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, page 97: