fasciculus
/fəˈsɪkjʊləs/noun
fasciculus is a noun meaning “A small bundle of nerve, muscle or tendon fibers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-S-C-I-C-U-L-U-S, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fasciculus is fasciculi.
What does fasciculus mean?
noun
- 1
A small bundle of nerve, muscle or tendon fibers.
- 2
One of the divisions of a book published in separate parts; a fascicle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fasciculus?
- /fəˈsɪkjʊləs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fasciculus
- fasciculi plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fasciculus?
Fasciculus appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate fasciculus?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of fasciculus: fasc..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does fasciculus come from?
Unadapted borrowing from Latin fasciculus. Doublet of fascicle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).