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lemniscus

[lem-nis-kuh s]
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noun, plural lem·nis·ci [lem-nis-ahy, -nis-kee] /lɛmˈnɪs aɪ, -ˈnɪs ki/. Anatomy.
  1. a band of fibers, especially of white nerve fibers in the brain.
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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)
  1. anatomy a technical name for fillet (def. 9)
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Word Origin

C19: New Latin, from Latin, from Greek lēmniskos ribbon
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Word Origin and History for lemniscus

n.

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).

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lemniscus in Medicine

lemniscus

(lĕm-nĭs′kəs)
n. pl. lem•nis•ci (-nĭs′ī′, -nĭs′kī′, -nĭs′kē)
  1. A bundle of nerve fibers ascending from sensory nuclei in the spinal cord and the rhombencephalon to the thalamus.
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