fascicule

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English

Etymology

From French fascicule, from Latin fasciculus.

Noun

fascicule (plural fascicules)

  1. An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.
    • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 104:
      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.
  2. (obsolete) A bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus.
    • 1893 November 25, Charles Zimmerman, “The Relation of the Ocular Nerves to the Brain”, in The Medical and Surgical Reporter, page 812:
      Perlia advocates, however, the assumption that the posterior longitudinal fascicule connecting the oculo-motor center with the medulla oblongata, []
    • 1895, Charles E. Sajous, “Normal Histology and Microscopical Technology”, in Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, page 97:
      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; []
  3. (botany) Alternative form of fascicle

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin fasciculus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

fascicule m (plural fascicules)

  1. installment
  2. fascicle
  3. bundle

Further reading

Latin

Noun

fascicule

  1. vocative singular of fasciculus