different between fascicle vs fascicule

English

Etymology

From Latin fasciculus, a diminutive of fascis (“bundle”); see also fasces. Doublet of fasciculus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæs?k?l/

Noun

fascicle (plural fascicles)

1. A bundle or cluster.
2. (anatomy) A bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue.
3. (botany) A cluster of flowers or leaves, such as the bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) of pines.
4. (botany) A discrete bundle of vascular tissue.
5. (publishing) A discrete section of a book issued or published separately.

   Synonym: serial

Related terms

• fasciculation

Translations

Further reading

• muscle fascicle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fascicle (botany) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin fasciculus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /f??si.kl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fa?si.kle/

Noun

fascicle m (plural fascicles)

1. fascicle

Further reading

• “fascicle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “fascicle” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “fascicle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

English

Etymology

From French fascicule, from Latin fasciculus.

Noun

fascicule (plural fascicules)

1. An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 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, Charles Zimmerman, "The Relation of the Ocular Nerves to the Brain", The Medical and Surgical Reporter, page 812, Nov. 25, 1893.

     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", 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

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin fasciculus.

Noun

fascicule m (plural fascicules)

1. installment
2. fascicle
3. bundle

Latin

Noun

fascicule

1. vocative singular of fasciculus