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Origin of fasciculus
From Latin, dating back to 1705–15; see origin at fascicle
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Our mental calendar involves circuits in the left angular gyrus, important for sequence discrimination and connected to the same hippocampal place cell or grid cell via a band of fibers: the inferior longitudinal fasciculus.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2020
Connecting Broca’s area with Wernicke’s is a neural network: a thick, curving bundle of billions of nerve fibres, the arcuate fasciculus, which integrates the production and the comprehension of language.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
This is an image showing a 3D-printed reconstruction of the white matter pathway connecting two areas of the human brain - the arcuate fasciculus.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2017
The majority of hypothalamic output travels through the medial forebrain bundle and the dorsal longitudinal fasciculus to influence brain stem and spinal components of the autonomic nervous system.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
A first fasciculus of this had been issued in 1859.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn
Situated on its floor are the fasciculi teretes, striae acusticae, and deposits of grey matter described in connexion with the medulla oblongata.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
If we consider what happens in a muscle we see that a chemical or traumatic stimulus produces a functional irritation of the primitive fasciculi, with contraction of the muscle followed by nutritive changes.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
All the muscles are enveloped in membranes, and the fasciculi, or bundles and fibres of muscles, have their membranous sheathing.
From Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
The muscle itself is made up of a number of these fasciculi bound together by a denser layer of connective tissue.
From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.
Is this year resumed, but we think it is not so successful as, were its previous fasciculi.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 288, Supplementary Number by Various
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