fascicle

[fas-i-kuhl]

noun

1. a section of a book or set of books being published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes.

2. a small bundle, tight cluster, or the like.

3. Botany.,  a close cluster, as of flowers or leaves.

4. Anatomy.,  a small bundle of nerve or muscle fibers.

fascicle

/ ˈfæsɪkəl, fəˈsɪkjʊˌleɪt, fəˈsɪkjʊlə, -lɪt /

noun

1. a bundle or cluster of branches, leaves, etc

2. Also called: fasciculus. anatomy a small bundle of fibres, esp nerve fibres

3. printing another name for fascicule

4. any small bundle or cluster

fascicle

1. A bundle or cluster of stems, flowers, or leaves, such as the bundles in which pine needles grow.

Other Word Forms

• fascicled adjective
• fasciculately adverb
• fasciculation noun
• fascicular adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of fascicle¹

First recorded in 1490–1500; from Latin fasciculus, diminutive of fascis; fasces, -cle ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of fascicle¹

C15: from Latin fasciculus a small bundle, from fascis a bundle

Example Sentences

However, in skeletal muscles with fascicles, the muscle fibers are shorter than the muscle belly and attach to the tendon at an angle.

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The arrangement of fascicles gives muscles their various functions.

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The poems in the real fascicles, which were disbound by editors, were copied out on folded stationery sheets.

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Atkins mailed the pages to subscribers as she completed them; readers then sewed the fascicles together as they pleased.

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Atkins continued the work — amounting to roughly 400 images — for 10 years, issuing new installments in fascicle, or booklet form, roughly every six months.

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