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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
The fasciculus attached to the embryo is the allantois which becomes the umbilical cord.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
It consists of two clearly distinct fasciculi, which arise from the fibula.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
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 Sir Charles Eliot
This expansion divides into fasciculi, which end in the thickness of the upper lip.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
Bezae, or in a series of fasciculi, each ending with a quire of varying size, like the Cod.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
The muscle itself is made up of a number of these fasciculi bound together by a denser layer of connective tissue.
From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell
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