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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 dorsal column is separated into two component tracts, the fasciculus gracilis that contains axons from the legs and lower body, and the fasciculus cuneatus that contains axons from the upper body and arms.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
They contain the fasciculus described, by Sir Charles Bell, as the respiratory tract.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
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
These muscles form the outer sheath of other muscles, which radiate from the nasal canals outwards, and which consist of numerous distinct fasciculi.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
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 T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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
Besides these Woide incorporated the fragments published by Mingarelli in his first two fasciculi.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
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