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