fascicule
fascicule noun: an installment of a printed work, a fascicle. Also the alternative form of fascicle.
Noun
fascicule (plural fascicules)
- An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.
- In Piers' hotel room at Avignon there was a ton of these fascicules, some of which I could even remember having heard him deliver in those far-off days.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 104
- A bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus.
- Perlia advocates, however, the assumption that the posterior longitudinal fascicule connecting the oculo-motor center with the medulla oblongata, […]1893 November 25, Charles Zimmerman, “The Relation of the Ocular Nerves to the Brain”, in The Medical and Surgical Reporter, page 812
- In the large tactile hairs, or sinus hairs, — i.e., those provided with a blood-sinus, — several nerve-fibres form a fascicule and enter the follicle near the base; […]1895, Charles E. Sajous, “Normal Histology and Microscopical Technology”, in Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, page 97
Also used as
fascicule is also the alternative form of fascicle.
Forms of fascicule
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Origin of fascicule
From French fascicule, from Latin fasciculus.
Questions about fascicule
- What does fascicule mean?
- Fascicule means an installment of a printed work, a fascicle.
- What part of speech is fascicule?
- Fascicule is a noun.
- What is the plural of fascicule?
- The plural of fascicule is fascicules.
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