noun
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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
The works of Giorgi and Münter, however, and the third fasciculus of Mingarelli, were overlooked by him or by his successor Ford.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
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