FASCICULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fasciculation mean? 

• FASCICULATION (noun)
  The noun FASCICULATION has 1 sense:

1. muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers

  Familiarity information: FASCICULATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FASCICULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("fasciculation" is a kind of...):

twitch; twitching; vellication (a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition)

 Context examples 

This protein may be involved in olfactory neuron polarity and fasciculation.

(Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule 2, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes neural cell adhesion molecule 2 protein, may play a role in the regulation of both fasciculation and olfactory neuron axon homing.

(NCAM2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene may be involved in fasciculation and olfaction.

(NCAM2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Fasciculations can often by visualized and take the form of a muscle twitch or dimpling under the skin, but usually do not generate sufficient force to move a limb.

(Fasciculation, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)