Definition of Fasciole

1. n. A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

Definition of Fasciole

1. Noun. (zoology) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fasciole

1. fasciola [n -S] - See also: fasciola

Medical Definition of Fasciole

1. A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea. Origin: L. Fasciola a little bandage. See Fascia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fasciole

fascinoma
fascinomas
fascinous
fascins
fascinums
fascio
fascio-
fasciodesis
fasciola
fasciola cinerea
fasciola hepatica
fasciolar
fasciolar gyrus
fasciolas
fasciole (current term)
fascioles
fascioliases
fascioliasis
fasciolid
fasciolidae
fascioloidiasis
fasciolopsiasis
fasciolosis
fascion
fascioplasty
fasciorrhaphy
fasciotomies
fasciotomy
fascism

Literary usage of Fasciole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1906)
"The latter specimens can be safely identified as L. oblonga, as has been done by Mr. RB Newton. But the majority of the specimens have no lateral fasciole. ..."

2. Catalogue of the Recent Echinida, Or Sea Eggs: In the Collection of the by John Edward Gray (1855)
"Lateral ambulacra similar, sunken ; lateral fasciole extending under the vent; ... internal fasciole none; ambulacra elongate. II. Back with nearly uniform ..."

3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"... and a narrow marginal fasciole, which can be traced round the anterior border, extending along the sides, passing beneath ..."

4. ... Report on the Echini by Alexander Agassiz (1885)
"In a specimen of this species measuring about 85 mm. in length, the marginal fasciole is traced only with difficulty near the ambitus across the anterior ..."

5. Catalogue of the Recent Echinida, Or Sea Eggs: In the Collection of the by John Edward Gray (1855)
"Lateral ambulacra petaloid, similar, generally sunken ; lateral fasciole none. ... back with nearly equal small tubercles ; subanal fasciole near vent. 9. ..."

6. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1871)
"The spines are long and slender on the lower surface, short and fine above, except on the borders of the ambulacra and within the fasciole, where the ..."

7. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1918)
"It appears to stand close to D. severina Dali, but that species has a wider, "distinctly excavated" anal fasciole, and a relatively longer last whorl. ..."

8. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"... fasciole. Two genera are recorded from the British area, ... has the front and hind petals of about the same length, and a sub - anal fasciole. ..."

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