Sentence examples for fascicles from inspiring English sources
The femoral nerve is divided into several dozen separate bundles of nerves, called fascicles, each of which contains hundreds if not thousands of individual nerves.
The problem is that within the femoral nerve all the fascicles are themselves bundled together, making it difficult to stimulate them individually.
Different fascicles lead to different muscles, so stimulating groups of fascicles at different times and by different degrees should enable co-ordinated leg movements.Stimulating fascicles can be done by wrapping so-called cuff electrodes around them.
But flattening them out makes the individual fascicles accessible, like the parallel wires in old computer cables, says Dr Tyler.And by controlling the intensity and duration of the electrical pulses applied, it is possible to specify just how much of the tissue is contracted.
The needlelike photosynthetic adult leaves, with two or more resin canals, are borne in fascicles (bundles) of two to five (rarely, up to eight or solitary) at the tip of each short shoot; they remain on the tree 2 to 17 years.
The leaves of pine are borne in bundles (fascicles), and the number of leaves per fascicle is an important distinguishing feature.
Furnivall was subsequently succeeded as editor by James A.H. Murray, who published the first fascicle of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles in 1884.
he final entry in the fascicle offers an explanation of how words like pageant and pheasant came to acquire a spelling ending in -ant, even though they derive from words in which there was no corresponding letter 't' (in these cases, the Latin pagina and phasianus respectively).
A thick fascicle of dreadlocks sheathed in wax thread is slung rakishly over his right shoulder and spliced to an equally long but spindlier cable of beard.
He rose from his perch and removed a canvas fascicle from a shelf.
Yet his inventor is sceptical about the idea of character, both as it applies to what he calls "that fascicle of language called Frank Bascombe" or to us in the world.
