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    FASCICULUS

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    Irregular inflected form: fasciculi  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)play

    Synonyms:

    fascicle; fasciculus; fiber bundle; fibre bundle

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting body parts

    Hypernyms ("fasciculus" is a kind of...):

    nerve tissue; nervous tissue (tissue composed of neurons)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fasciculus"):

    fornix; trigonum cerebrale (an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies)

    nerve; nervus (any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body)

    Holonyms ("fasciculus" is a part of...):

    nervous system; systema nervosum (the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells)

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