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单词 fascicle
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Definition of fascicle in English:

fascicle

noun ˈfasɪk(ə)lˈfæsək(ə)l
  • 1A separately published instalment of a book or other printed work.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is therefore no surprise to find that the manuscript, more technically known as the ‘eleventh fascicle of Wi’ used in this recording originated in Paris around the year 1230.
    • It was agreed that the work would take ten years to complete, be published at intervals in fascicles, and in its final form would consist of four volumes of some 6,400 pages.
    • We have also published two new fascicules from the series.
    • Well, what I do is to take my pen-knife and slit the whole book up into forty or so fascicles.
    • When the last fascicle was published in April 1928, it completed a ten-volume dictionary documenting over 400,000 words and phrases.
  • 2Anatomy Biology
    A bundle of structures, such as nerve or muscle fibres or conducting vessels in plants.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The medial longitudinal fasciculus occupies its characteristic paramedian position.
    • Bundles of nerve fibers serving a common function and sharing a common origin and destination are grouped together in tracts or fasciculi.
    • Accessory fasciculi vary markedly in their origin and termination.
    • An extra fasciculus from the clavicle is found in 3% of individuals.
    • As it pursues its arched course, the superior longitudinal fasciculus gathers and sheds nerve fibers from various cortical areas, and so links them to each other.
    Synonyms
    bunch, roll, clump, wad, parcel, packet, package, pack, sheaf, bale, bolt, truss, faggot

Derivatives

  • fascicled

  • adjective
    • Flowers are solitary or fascicled, hermaphroditic, bright yellow, diurnal, and last less than 1 day.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It has terminal, fascicled inflorescences of several scarlet flowers covered by imbricate, scarious sheaths, and the labellum margins are fused with the column forming a short, saccate nectary spur.
  • fascicular

  • adjective faˈsɪkjʊlə
    • Histologically, all demonstrated a densely cellular storiform or vaguely fascicular pattern, broadly extending into the subcutaneous fat.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The spindle cells were arranged in a predominantly fascicular pattern.
      • The tumor was composed of spindle and epithelioid cells, some of which were arranged in a fascicular pattern, consistent with malignant melanoma.
      • The cut surface of the lesion was tan-white and had a faint fascicular pattern.
      • Some tumors may display a fascicular or spindled appearance.
  • fasciculate

  • adjective faˈsɪkjʊlətfəˈsɪkjəˌleɪt
    • The corallum is generally fasciculate and phaceloid, attaining 116 × 126 mm in transverse section at its widest part.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Rugose corals with solitary form, fasciculate colonial form, simple morphology, and high variability also tended to resist the latest Ordovician extinctions.

Origin

Late 15th century (in sense 2): from Latin fasciculus, diminutive of fascis 'bundle'.

Rhymes

classical, neoclassical
 
 

Definition of fascicle in US English:

fascicle

nounˈfasək(ə)lˈfæsək(ə)l
  • 1A separately published installment of a book or other printed work.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is therefore no surprise to find that the manuscript, more technically known as the ‘eleventh fascicle of Wi’ used in this recording originated in Paris around the year 1230.
    • We have also published two new fascicules from the series.
    • It was agreed that the work would take ten years to complete, be published at intervals in fascicles, and in its final form would consist of four volumes of some 6,400 pages.
    • Well, what I do is to take my pen-knife and slit the whole book up into forty or so fascicles.
    • When the last fascicle was published in April 1928, it completed a ten-volume dictionary documenting over 400,000 words and phrases.
  • 2Anatomy Biology
    A bundle of structures, such as nerve or muscle fibers or conducting vessels in plants.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bundles of nerve fibers serving a common function and sharing a common origin and destination are grouped together in tracts or fasciculi.
    • An extra fasciculus from the clavicle is found in 3% of individuals.
    • The medial longitudinal fasciculus occupies its characteristic paramedian position.
    • Accessory fasciculi vary markedly in their origin and termination.
    • As it pursues its arched course, the superior longitudinal fasciculus gathers and sheds nerve fibers from various cortical areas, and so links them to each other.
    Synonyms
    bunch, roll, clump, wad, parcel, packet, package, pack, sheaf, bale, bolt, truss, faggot

Origin

Late 15th century (in fascicle (sense 2)): from Latin fasciculus, diminutive of fascis ‘bundle’.

 
 
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