Meanings
plural fascicules
- An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.
In Piers' hotel room at Avignon there was a ton of these fascicules, some of which I could even remember having heard him deliver in those far-off days.
1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 104 - obsoleteA bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus.
Perlia advocates, however, the assumption that the posterior longitudinal fascicule connecting the oculo-motor center with the medulla oblongata, […]
1893 November 25, Charles Zimmerman, “The Relation of the Ocular Nerves to the Brain”, in The Medical and Surgical Reporter, page 8121 more example
In the large tactile hairs, or sinus hairs, — i.e., those provided with a blood-sinus, — several nerve-fibres form a fascicule and enter the follicle near the base; […]
1895, Charles E. Sajous, “Normal Histology and Microscopical Technology”, in Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, page 97 - alternativebiologyAlternative form of fascicle.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinfasciculus
- Frenchfascicule
- Englishfascicule
From French fascicule, from Latin fasciculus.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan fascicle, fascicle
- fasciclean installment of a printed work, a fascicle
- fasciclea bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus
French fascicule
- fasciculean installment of a printed work, a fascicle
Italian fascicolo
- fascicoloan installment of a printed work, a fascicle
Latin fasciculus
- fasciculusan installment of a printed work, a fascicle
Portuguese fascículo
- fascículoan installment of a printed work, a fascicle
Russian вы́пуск, пучо́к нервов
- вы́пуск (výpusk)an installment of a printed work, a fascicle
- пучо́к нервов (pučók nervov)a bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus
Cite this entry
fascicule. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fascicule
“fascicule.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fascicule. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fascicule,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fascicule.
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