Despite the fact that skeletal muscles come in all different shapes and sizes, their overall structure is basically the same. Each muscle is made up of bundles of fibers, surrounded by connective tissue. Each muscle fiber in the bundle is a...
The are many medical conditions associated with nystagmus. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health or NIH, nystagmus is the rapid, involuntary movement of a person's eyes from side to side, up and...
Cognition refers to the higher order functions that are needed for learning and interacting with a person's environment. Each human brain is capable of multiple cognitive functions, such as memory, attention, executive functions and language. Each...
fasciculus n. , pl. , -li . A bundle of anatomical fibers, as of muscle or nerve. Also called fascicle
fasciculus /fas·cic·u·lus/ (fah-sik´u-lus) pl. fasci´culi [L.] fascicle. cuneate fasciculus of medulla oblongata the continuation into the medulla oblongata of ...
Fasciculus vesanus is an extinct species of stem-group ctenophore, known from the Canadian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. It is dated to 515 to 510 million years ...
A fascicle is a bundle or a cluster. The Latin term fasciculus (plural fasciculi) may also be used with the same meanings. Fascicle or fasciculus may refer to ...
fas·cic·u·lus (f-s k y-l s) n. pl. fas·cic·u·li (-l) A bundle of anatomical fibers, as of muscle or nerve. Also called fascicle. [Latin, fascicle; see fascicle
Definition of FASCICULUS. 1: a slender bundle of anatomical fibers (as nerve fibers) 2: fascicle 2 . Origin of FASCICULUS. New Latin, from Latin. First Known Use: 1713
noun, plural fas·cic·u·li . 1. a fascicle , as of nerve or muscle fibers. 2. a fascicle of a book. Origin: 1705'15; < Latin; see fascicle
a small bundle of fibers; specif., a bundle of nerve fibers in the central nervous system; fascicle (sense )
medial longitudinal fasciculus n. A longitudinal bundle of fibers extending from the upper border of the mesencephalon i
Definition of FASCICULUS: a slender bundle of fibers: a: a bundle of skeletal muscle cells bound together by fasciae and forming one of the constituent elements of a ...