ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] In various scientific uses = FASCICULATE.

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1777.  Hunter, in Phil. Trans., LXVII. 611. The fasciculated surfaces in the heart.

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1788.  trans. Swedenborg’s Wisd. Angels, v. § 366. 345. The Fibres … successively collect themselves into Nerves, and when they are fasciculated or become Nerves [etc.].

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a. 1798.  Pennant, Zool. (1812), IV. xxxiii. 135. Asterias, or sea star, with twelve broad rays finely reticulated, and roughened with fasciculated long papillæ on the upper part; hirsute beneath; red.

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1835–6.  R. B. Todd, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, I. 140/1. The muscular system consists of reddish and whitish fasciculated fibres.

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1853.  Th. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., III. xxvi. 115. We found some toises broad, full of small fasciculated crystals of rutile titanite.

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1854.  S. Thomson, Wild Fl., I. (ed. 4), 29. The fasciculated or bundled [root] … we see in the bird’s-nest orchis, approaching the tuberous roots of others of the orchis species.

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