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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
An enlarged lymphatic 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.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
Pick the bundles and fasciculi apart until the fibers are so fine as to be almost invisible to the naked eye.
From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.
One of these fasciculi is anterior; the other is situated further back.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
In the ox it is united above with the frontal muscle, and below is divided into two fasciculi, between which pass the elevator described above and the canine muscle.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
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
Thus, though many translations had appeared under the name of Prajnâpâramitâ, Hsüan Chuang filled 600 fasciculi with a new rendering of the gigantic treatise.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
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