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What is the noun for fascicles?

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fascicle
  1. A bundle or cluster.
  2. 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. A discrete section of a book issued or published separately.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “A simple fascicle of the biceps inserting into the origin of the pronator teres Macalister has seen three times.”
      “After 14 years, the long-awaited sequel to the second edition of the fascicle Tumors of the Gallbladder and Extrahepatic Bile Ducts has arrived.”
      “When the last fascicle was published in April 1928, it completed a ten-volume dictionary documenting over 400,000 words and phrases.”
fasciculus
  1. (anatomy) A small bundle of nerve, muscle or tendon fibers.
  2. One of the divisions of a book published in separate parts; a fascicle.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The medial longitudinal fasciculus occupies its characteristic paramedian position.”
      “The slip is sometimes joined or replaced by a muscular fasciculus arising from, or in the neighborhood of, the pisiform bone.”
      “The cuneate fasciculus covers its nucleus and occupies the area immediately lateral to the gracile fasciculus.”
fascicule
  1. An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.
  2. (obsolete) A bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus.
fasciculi
  1. plural of fasciculus
  2. Examples:
    1. “A complete muscle consists of numerous fasciculi surrounded by a thick outer layer of connective tissue known as the perimysial septa.”
      “Bundles of nerve fibers serving a common function and sharing a common origin and destination are grouped together in tracts or fasciculi.”
      “Accessory fasciculi may unite the pectineus with the obturator externus, the iliacus, the capsule of the hip, or the lesser trochanter.”
fascicules
  1. plural of fascicule
fascicles
  1. plural of fascicle
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The tumor cells were mainly composed of elongated spindle cells arranged in fascicles.”
      “Histologic sections showed a cellular proliferation of spindle neoplastic cells that were arranged in short fascicles.”
      “There were fascicles of spindle cells sometimes arranged in a whorled pattern or admixed with thick collagen fibers.”
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