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noun

Fascia n. (pl. fasciae)

A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.

(Arch.) A flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.

(Anat.) The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.

(Zool.) A broad well-defined band of color.

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Etymology of 'Fascia'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fascia" Quotes from Famous Books

... embalming, wherein deeply slashing the muscles, and taking out the brains and en- trails, they had broken the subject of so entire a resur- rection, nor fully answered the types of Enoch, Elijah, or Jonah, which yet to prevent or restore, was of equal facility unto that rising power able to break the fascia- tions and bands of death, to get clear out of the cerecloth, and an hundred pounds of ointment, and out of the sepulchre before the ...

— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne

... nerves. It is the blood that gives the red color to the flesh. Blood-vessels and nerves on their way to other parts of the body, do not pass through the muscles, but between them. Each muscle is enveloped in its own sheath of connective tissue, known as the fascia. Muscles are not usually connected directly with bones, but by means of white, glistening cords ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

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