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Fascicle vs Fascicule - What's the difference?

fascicle | fascicule |

As nouns the difference between fascicle and fascicule

is that fascicle is a bundle or cluster while fascicule is an installment of a printed work, a fascicle.

fascicle

English

(wikipedia fascicle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A bundle or cluster.
  • (anatomy): A bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue.
  • (botany): A cluster of flowers or leaves, such as the bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) of pines.
  • (botany): A discrete bundle of vascular tissue.
  • A discrete section of a book issued or published separately.
  • * 2005 : Cynthia Joanne Brokaw & Kai-wing Chow, Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China'', essay ten: ''Visual Hermeneutics and the Act of Turning the Leaf: A Genealogy of Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge , by Anne Burkus-Chasson, p371] (The [http://www.ucpress.edu/ University of California Press; ISBN 0520231260 (10), ISBN 978-0520231269 (13))
    • The printed book appeared in a variety of forms during the course of its history in China. These included, among others, the “whirlwind” binding (xuanfeng zhuang)'', sometimes called the “dragon scales” binding ''(longlin zhuang)'', to describe the overlapping sheets of paper within the book; the “fold” binding ''(zhezhuang)'', also known as the “folding s?tra” binding ''(jingzhe zhuang)'' or “Sanskrit” binding ''(fanjia zhuang)'', given its common use in the presentation of Buddhist texts; the “butterfly” binding ''(hudie zhuang)'', whose appellation derives from the effect of fluttering papers that accompanies the opening of the book; and the “thread” binding ''(xianzhuang) , a technical designation that refers to the silken or cotton filaments used to stitch together folded sheets of paper into fascicles . (For diagrams of these fabrications, see Fig. 30.)

    Related terms

    * fasciculation English terms derived from Latin

    fascicule

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.
  • * 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 104:
    • In Piers' hotel room at Avignon there was a ton of these fascicules , some of which I could even remember having heard him deliver in those far-off days.
  • (obsolete) A bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus.
  • * 1893 , Charles Zimmerman, "The Relation of the Ocular Nerves to the Brain", The Medical and Surgical Reporter , page 812, Nov. 25, 1893.
    • Perlia advocates, however, the assumption that the posterior longitudinal fascicule connecting the oculo-motor center with the medulla oblongata, […].
  • * 1895 , Charles E. Sajous, "Normal Histology and Microscopical Technology", Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences , page 97
    • In the large tactile hairs, or sinus hairs, — i.e. , those provided with a blood-sinus, — several nerve-fibres form a fascicule and enter the follicle near the base; […].