fascicle
IPA: fˈæʃɪkʌɫ
noun
- A bundle or cluster.
- (anatomy) A bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue.
- (botany) A cluster of flowers or leaves, such as the bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) of pines.
- (botany) A discrete bundle of vascular tissue.
- (publishing) A discrete section of a book issued or published separately.
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Examples of "fascicle" in Sentences
- A fascicle is a bundle or a cluster.
- The right bundle branch contains one fascicle.
- There are iki articles on fascicles and perimysium.
- Fascicle redirects to this article, but isn't discussed here.
- Now the reader has no hope of understanding what a fascicle is.
- I put down the last fascicle of all, and met his friendly eyes.
- These bud scales often remain on the fascicle as a basal sheath.
- The fascicles in the electrical conduction system are not nerves.
- Cystidia in the hymenium are characteristically mostly in fascicles.
- He was also the publisher of the first fascicle for the Louvre in 1922.
- The arrogance of such logic is at best questionable and at worst fascicle.
- A fascicle marked very distinctly “1” caught my attention, and I took it up.
- The fascicle sheath is another character that is important for identification.
- OED1 has the word, but the first fascicle of the OED was published in 1884, probably three years after this little book.
- Each town is published separately as a fascicle or folder and includes a series of maps complemented by a detailed text section.
- Obs. exc. dial. (ovest); in the century since then (the fascicle Outjet-Ozyat appeared in January 1904) they not only added the second dialect citation, they decided (quite rightly) that it should be entered under the modern spelling.
- This 2006 photograph depicted a female Aedes aegypti mosquito as she was in the process of beginning the process of acquiring a blood meal from its human host, after having penetrated the skin surface with the sharply-pointed "fascicle".
- Working as quickly as Murray and his sub-editors and assistants could do — often 13 hours a day, it was nevertheless five years before the first published fascicle (A-Ant) came from the press in 1884, a “slender, somewhat undistinguished-looking paperback book,” the first of 128 such fascicles that would make up the entire dictionary.
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