Fascicle or ''fasciculus'' may refer to:
Anatomy and histology
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Muscle fascicle, a bundle of skeletal muscle fibers
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Nerve fascicle
A nerve fascicle, is a bundle of nerve fibers belonging to a nerve in the peripheral nervous system. A nerve fascicle is also called a fasciculus. A nerve fascicle is enclosed by perineurium, a layer of fascial connective tissue. Each enclosed ...
, a bundle of axons (nerve fibers)
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Superior longitudinal fasciculus
The superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) is an association tract in the brain that is composed of three separate components. It is present in both hemispheres and can be found lateral to the centrum semiovale and connects the frontal, occipita ...
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Arcuate fasciculus
The arcuate fasciculus (AF) is a bundle of axons that generally connects the Broca's area and the Wernicke's area in the brain. It is an association fiber tract connecting caudal temporal cortex and inferior frontal lobe. ''Fasciculus arcuatus'' ...
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Gracile fasciculus
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Cuneate fasciculus
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Dorsal longitudinal fasciculus
Dorsal (from Latin ''dorsum'' ‘back’) may refer to:
* Dorsal (anatomy), an anatomical term of location referring to the back or upper side of an organism or parts of an organism
* Dorsal, positioned on top of an aircraft's fuselage
* Dorsal co ...
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Medial longitudinal fasciculus
The medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) is an area of crossed over tracts, on each side of the brainstem. These bundles of axons are situated near the midline of the brainstem. They are made up of both ascending and descending fibers that ari ...
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Flechsig's fasciculus
The spinocerebellar tract is a nerve tract originating in the spinal cord and terminating in the same side (ipsilateral) of the cerebellum.
Origins of proprioceptive information
Proprioceptive information is obtained by Golgi tendon organs and ...
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Fascicular pattern
Histopathology (compound of three Greek words: ''histos'' "tissue", πάθος ''pathos'' "suffering", and -λογία ''-logia'' "study of") refers to the microscopic examination of tissue in order to study the manifestations of disease. Spec ...
of histopathologic architecture
Botany
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Fascicle (botany), a cluster of flowers or leaves, such as the bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) of pines
* A discrete bundle of
vascular tissue
Other uses
* ''
Fasciculus'', a fossil comb jelly
* ''
Fasciculus Chemicus'', a 17th-century anthology of alchemical writings
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Fascicle (book), a discrete section of a larger book or other published work issued in serial form
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