Fillet

{fil’-et) [Fr., filet, a thread]. I. A loop for the purpose of making traction on the fetus. 2. The lemniscus, a band of nerve-fibers connected below with the nucleus gracilis and nucleus caudatus of the medulla and running upward through the pons and crus cerebri to the cerebrum, a portion of the fibers (lateral fillet) entering the posterior corpora quadrigemina, another (mesal fillet) pa ing to the anterior corpora quadrigemina and the optic thalamus. A part Of the mesal fillet is continued into the corlex. F., Olivary, a fasciculus of nerve-fibers enclosing the olivary body of the medulla. 277