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Dictionary of Biological Psychology

fasciculation

(from Latin, fascis: bundle) Fasciculation has two meanings: (i) it is the term given to rapid contractions of discrete musclebundles, detectable in one muscle after another. It is a feature of AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS. (ii) It is used to indicate the DEVELOPMENT of bundles of FIBRES in nervous tissue.

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Fasciculation from Dictionary of Biological Psychology. ISBN: 0-203-29884-5. Published: 02-22-2001. ©2009 Taylor and Francis. All rights reserved.



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