is one possibility which I found in an apparently genuinly English reference. There are many variations on the theme in Google, but most of them seem to originate from non-native speakers.

Greetings,

Nikolaus

Could you not just say nerves (as the meaning includes the bundles - see below)?

nerve
1. <anatomy> One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibres, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.

An ordinary nerve is made up of several bundles of nerve fibres, each bundle inclosed in a special sheath (the perineurium) and all bound together in a connective tissue sheath and framework (the epineurium) containing blood vessels and lymphatics.

If you want something specific to qualify the "bundle", I would consider:

perineurium
<anatomy> The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibres. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.

Origin: NL, fr. Gr. About + a nerve.

Source: Websters Dictionary

(01 Mar 1998)



The problem in English is that if you start saying "vascular bundles", right away you could be referring to botany.

For example:
vascular bundle
Strand of vascular tissue in a plant, composed of xylem and phloem.


I would assume that that is the the reason the answer above found mostly foreing sites.

Cheers,
Paula

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Oops! That should read \"foreign sites\" eg. non-English speakers

I read "NEUROvascular" bundle in Nikolaus´s answer... apologies, and I take my agreement back...

Neurovascular Bundle it IS
...
It is NOT NERVOvascular...

Ref: Experience

The site bellow saws the results of the search for “neurovascular”, 3,726 hits, agaist 1 hit for “nervovascular”.

The following text is one of the proofs and no doubts about the provenance.

Neuroanatomy of the extraocular muscle tendon enthesis in macaque, normal human, and patients with congenital nystagmus.

Hertle RW, Chan CC, Galita DA, Maybodi M, Crawford MA.

Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

PURPOSE: To search for the presence of, and qualitatively characterize the microscopic anatomy of, nerve terminals in the tendino-scleral (enthesial) area of the extraocular muscle tendon. METHODS: Extraocular rectus muscle tendino-scleralspecimens from a macaque monkey, a normal human, cadavers, and patients with congenital nystagmus were obtained and studied with transmission electron microscopy. RESULTS: Enthesial neurovascular structures were identified in all specimens. The enthesial area showed structures consisting of myelinated and unmyelinated nerve fibers with associated supporting vascular capillaries. Qualitative analysis showed anomalous neurovascular structures were in the enthesis of patients with congenital nystagmus. CONCLUSIONS: This study confirms the presence of normal and abnormal neural anatomy in the enthesial area of the extraocular muscle tendon. Neurovascular abnormalities in the enthesial part of the extraocular muscle tendon may be a result of, or contribute to, disease pathogenesis. If these structures are related to afferent central nervous system input, then disruption of them during surgery might influence postoperative outcome.