noun
Etymology
Origin of fasciculus
From Latin, dating back to 1705–15; see origin at fascicle
Example Sentences
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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 nucleus gracilis is the target of fibers in the fasciculus gracilis, whereas the nucleus cuneatus is the target of fibers in the fasciculus cuneatus.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
That area is the section of the fasciculus of cones that proceed from each point of the mirror, which, in the case we have supposed, differs immaterially from the cone reflected from a single point.
From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Galton, Francis, Sir
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