lemniscus

[lem-nis-kuh s]

noun, plural lem·nis·ci

[lem-nis-ahy, -nis-kee] /lɛmˈnɪs aɪ, -ˈnɪs ki/. Anatomy.

a band of fibers, especially of white nerve fibers in the brain.

Origin of lemniscus

1840–50; < New Latin, special use of Latin lēmniscus pendent ribbon < Greek lēmnískos ribbon

Also called fillet, laqueus.

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British Dictionary definitions for lemniscus

lemniscus

noun plural -nisci (-ˈnɪsaɪ, -ˈnɪskiː)

anatomy a technical name for fillet (def. 9)

Word Origin for lemniscus

C19: New Latin, from Latin, from Greek lēmniskos ribbon

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Word Origin and History for lemniscus

1811, from Late Latin lemniscus "a pendent ribbon." from Greek lemniskos "woolen ribbon," perhaps originally or literally "of Lemnos," island in the Aegean. Related: Lemniscate (1781).

lemniscus in Medicine

lemniscus

[lĕm-nĭs′kəs]

n. pl. lem•nis•ci (-nĭs′ī′, -nĭs′kī′, -nĭs′kē)

A bundle of nerve fibers ascending from sensory nuclei in the spinal cord and the rhombencephalon to the thalamus.