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A bundle or band of sensory nerve fibers.

A kind of reference-mark such as the modern asterisk, obelisk, etc., consisting of a straight line drawn between two points or dots (÷), formerly used by textual critics in their annotations.

In anc. costume, a woolen fillet or ribbon pendent at the back of the head from diadems, crowns, etc. It was likewise attached to prizes as a mark of additional honor.

In anatomy:

One of the minute ribbon-like appendages of the generative pores of some entozoans, as Echinorhynchus. See cut under Acanthocephala.

Same as fillet, 9.

In zoology, a genus of acalephs.

One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.

One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.

a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus