fasciculus

Other forms of fasciculus

plural

fasciculi

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fasciculus

What does fasciculus mean?

fasciculus means "a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)".

How many syllables are in fasciculus?

fasciculus has 4 syllables: fa-sci-cu-lus. The stress falls on "sci".

What is another word for fasciculus?

Close synonyms include fiber bundle, fibre bundle, fascicle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fasciculus a common word?

fasciculus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.