fasciculeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fascicule (plural fascicules)

1. An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 104:

     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.

2. (obsolete) A bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus.
   • 1893 November 25, Charles Zimmerman, “The Relation of the Ocular Nerves to the Brain”, in The Medical and Surgical Reporter, page 812:

     Perlia advocates, however, the assumption that the posterior longitudinal fascicule connecting the oculo-motor center with the medulla oblongata, […]

   • 1895, Charles E. Sajous, “Normal Histology and Microscopical Technology”, in Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, page 97:

     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; […]

3. (botany) Alternative form of fascicle.