lemniscus (lɛmˈnɪskəs) ![]() | |
| —n , pl -nisci | |
| anatomy a technical name for fillet | |
| [C19: New Latin, from Latin, from Greek lēmniskos ribbon] | |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
lemniscus lem·nis·cus (lěm-nĭs'kəs)
n. pl. lem·nis·ci (-nĭs'ī', -nĭs'kī', -nĭs'kē)
A bundle of nerve fibers ascending from sensory nuclei in the spinal cord and the rhombencephalon to the thalamus.