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fascicle
[ fas-i-kuhl ]
noun
- a section of a book or set of books being published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes.
- a small bundle, tight cluster, or the like.
- Botany. a close cluster, as of flowers or leaves.
- Anatomy. a small bundle of nerve or muscle fibers.
fascicle
/ ˈfæsɪkəl; fəˈsɪkjʊˌleɪt; fəˈsɪkjʊlə; -lɪt /
noun
- a bundle or cluster of branches, leaves, etc
- Also calledfasciculus anatomy a small bundle of fibres, esp nerve fibres
- printing another name for fascicule
- any small bundle or cluster
fascicle
/ ă′ĭ-ə /
- A bundle or cluster of stems, flowers, or leaves, such as the bundles in which pine needles grow.
Derived Forms
- ˈڲ, adjective
- ڲˈܱٱ, adverb
- ڲˌˈپDz, noun
- fascicular, adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of fascicle1
Example Sentences
However, in skeletal muscles with fascicles, the muscle fibers are shorter than the muscle belly and attach to the tendon at an angle.
The arrangement of fascicles gives muscles their various functions.
The poems in the real fascicles, which were disbound by editors, were copied out on folded stationery sheets.
Atkins mailed the pages to subscribers as she completed them; readers then sewed the fascicles together as they pleased.
Atkins continued the work — amounting to roughly 400 images — for 10 years, issuing new installments in fascicle, or booklet form, roughly every six months.
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