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fas·cic·u·lus

 (fə-sĭk′yə-ləs)
n. pl. fas·cic·u·li (-lī′)
A bundle of anatomical fibers, as of muscle or nerve. Also called fascicle.
[Latin, fascicle; see fascicle.]
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fasciculus

(fəˈsɪkjʊləs)
n, pl -li (-ˌlaɪ)
(Anatomy) another name for fascicle2, fascicule
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fas•ci•cle

(ˈfæs ɪ kəl)

n.
1. a section of a book or set of books being published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes.
2. a close cluster, as of flowers.
3. a small bundle of nerve or muscle fibers.
[1490–1500; < Latin fasciculus, diminutive of fascis. See fasces, -cle1]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.fasciculus - a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)fasciculus - a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)
fiber bundle, fibre bundle, fascicle
trigonum cerebrale, fornix - 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 tissue, nervous tissue - tissue composed of neurons
nervous system, systema nervosum - the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells
nerve, nervus - any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
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Rykhlevskaia et al., "Anatomical properties of the arcuate fasciculus predict phonological and reading skills in children," Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol.
Failure to identify the left arcuate fasciculus at diffusion tractography is a specific marker of language dysfunction in pediatric patients with polymicrogyria
An accessory muscular fasciculus measuring 6.2cm in length and 1.3cm in width was seen to be arising from the middle of the anterior surface of scalenus medius muscle .
The scalenus accessorious muscle/ El musculo escaleno accesorio
Compared to the normal controls (NCs), significantly lower fractional anisotropy (FA) values were observed in the left angular gyrus (AG), right cerebellum (CB), left precentral gyrus (PreCG), left lateral occipital region (LOC), left superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF), left supramarginal gyrus (SMG), and left postcentral gyrus (PostCG) in SCI patients (p < 0.01, TFCE corrected) (Table 2 and Figure 1).
Brain White Matter Impairment in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury
The inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF) and inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF) are still classically described as the two main white matter bundles responsible for facilitating the epileptic propagation in OLE because of their close spatial relationship with the optic radiation and the primary visual cortex (V1) [18, 20].
The classical pathways of occipital lobe epileptic propagation revised in the light of white matter dissection
In the upper deep portion, a fasciculus clearly separated by loose connective tissue revealed various spindles, some fused and others not.
Alteraciones morfologicas en el musculo masetero por extraccion unilateral de los molares superiores en cobayas (cavia porcellus)
[37] compared average FA in small, circular ROIs in the corpus callosum, frontal arcuate fasciculus, and parietal arcuate fasciculus between a group of 28 tinnitus patients and 12 normal hearing controls.
Diffusion imaging of auditory and auditory-limbic connectivity in tinnitus: preliminary evidence and methodological challenges
Mesulam, "The arcuate fasciculus and the disconnection theme in language and aphasia: history and current state," Cortex, vol.
Mapping remote subcortical ramifications of injury after ischemic strokes
used DTI to compare tinnitus subjects with control populations [89]: a statistically significant reduction in the fractional anisotropy (FA) value was found in frontal and parietal arcuate fasciculus in the tinnitus groups compared with the healthy control group.
A brain centred view of psychiatric comorbidity in tinnitus: from otology to hodology
Thus, for example, the left posterior inferior frontal region, Broca's area, was linked to speech production (where brain damage would result in articulatory problems); the left posterior temporal region, Wernicke's area, to auditory speech recognition (where damage would yield impaired language comprehension); and the arcuate fasciculus connecting these anterior and posterior regions to repetition (where damage would impair production by repetition but preserve comprehension).
Brain and language: evidence for neural multifunctionality
conclude that the right arcuate fasciculus can be remodeled by intense, long-term MIT [24].
Paving the way for speech: voice-training-induced plasticity in chronic aphasia and apraxia of speech--three single cases
Blindness duration ROI MNI coordinates r P value L_OR -24, -80,1 0.14 -0.041 R_OR 30, 72, 4 -0.25 -0.10 Genu of CC 6,13, 22 -0.47 0.086 ATR 16,17, -3 -0.41 0.21 aIFOF 28, 33, 8 -0.042 -0.041 pSLF 20, -41, 39 -0.051 0.20 Age of onset Chronological age ROI r P value r P value L_OR 0.86 0.56 0.11 0.64 R_OR 0.67 0.27 -0.32 0.16 Genu of CC 0.71 0.031 -0.42 0.057 ATR 0.37 0.070 -0.28 0.22 aIFOF 0.86 0.86 -0.068 0.77 pSLF 0.93 0.83 -0.039 0.87 aIFOF: anterior inferior frontal occipital fasciculus; ATR: anterior thalamic radiation; CC: corpus callosum; FA: fractional anisotropy; OR: optic radiation; pSLF: posterior superior longitudinal fasciculus; and r: correlation coefficient.
Altered white matter integrity in the congenital and late blind people
Anatomy and functional role of the inferior longitudinal fasciculus: a search that has just begun.
Preparacion de Hemisferios Cerebrales para Diseccion de Tractos/Preparation of Cerebral Hemispheres for Tracts Dissection

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