How To Use fasciculus In A Sentence
- The rounded bundle known as the uncinate fasciculus is named for its hooklike configuration as it curves beneath the stem of the lateral sulcus to connect areas of cortex in the lower frontal and anterior temporal regions.
- As it pursues its arched course, the superior longitudinal fasciculus gathers and sheds nerve fibers from various cortical areas, and so links them to each other.
- The spino-olivary fasciculus (olivospinal; bulbospinal, Helwegs bundle) is likewise of unknown constitution and function; there is uncertainty even in regard to the direction of its fibers. IX. Neurology. 4d. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves
- It may be formed of two superimposed layers and it may be more or less fused with the lateral pterygoid or send a fasciculus to the condylar process.
- At this point, it gives off collaterals and ascends ipsilaterally in the fasciculus gracilis (or cuneatus) to synapse in the nucleus gracilis (or cuneatus) in the caudal medulla. Xml's Blinklist.com
- In the brainstem, the medial longitudinal fasciculus is a well-defined white bundle, descending through the midbrain tegmentum, adjacent to the central gray matter.
- Dorsally, it is partly separated from the gray substance of the quadrigeminal bodies by the fibers of the lemniscus; ventral to it are the medial longitudinal fasciculus, and the formatio reticularis of the tegmentum. IX. Neurology. 4b. The Mid-brain or Mesencephalon
- They first pass backward and medialward toward the rhomboid fossa, and, reaching the posterior end of the nucleus of the abducent nerve, run upward close to the middle line beneath the colliculus fasciculus. IX. Neurology. 5g. The Facial Nerve
- The fibers which pass into the vestibulospinal fasciculus are intimately concerned with equilibratory reflexes. IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves
- An extra fasciculus from the clavicle is found in 3% of individuals.
