Fascicle

The word fascicle derives from the Latin fascis ("bundle").

Fascicles are the sections of a book, usually a reference work, that because of its length, is issued in parts so that the information may be made available to the public as soon as possible rather than waiting years or decades to complete the entire work. The Oxford English Dictionary was published in fascicles over many years, as was the Dictionary of American English. Volume 4 of Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming is currently being published in this form.
"Fascicle" often refers to the booklets in which Emily Dickinson inscribed many of her poems.
A fascicle is a bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue.
Specialized muscle fibers in the heart which transmit electrical impulses from the Atrioventricular Node (AV Node) to the Purkinje Fibers are fascicles, also referred to as bundle branches. These start as a single fascicle of fibers at the AV node called the Bundle of His that then splits into three bundle branches: the right fascicular branch, left anterior fascicular branch, and left posterior fascicular branch.
The bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) of pines are referred to as fascicles.

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