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Lemniscus

//lɛmˈnɪ.skəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.
  2. 2
    a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus wordnet
  3. 3
    A woollen fillet attached to the back of crowns, diadems, etc.
  4. 4
    A ribbon of fibers, especially of cerebral white nerve fibers.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lēmniscus (“pendent ribbon”), from Ancient Greek λημνῐ́σκος (lēmnĭ́skos), from Λῆμνος (Lêmnos, “a Greek island Lemnos”) + -ίσκος (-ískos, “noun-forming diminutive suffix”).

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