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fascicule en · NOUN

Etymology

From French fascicule, from Latin fasciculus.

Meanings

1. 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:
2. (obsolete) A bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus.
   • 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:
   • 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:
3. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of fascicle.
   alt of fascicle

Forms

Translations (8)

ru пучо́к нервов (a bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus) · la fasciculus (an installment of a printed work, a fascicle) · ru вы́пуск (an installment of a printed work, a fascicle) · fr fascicule (an installment of a printed work, a fascicle) · ca fascicle (a bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus) · ca fascicle (an installment of a printed work, a fascicle) · it fascicolo (an installment of a printed work, a fascicle) · pt fascículo (an installment of a printed work, a fascicle)