fascia

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Anatomy A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue enveloping, separating, or binding together muscles, organs, and other soft structures of the body.
2. n. A broad and distinct band of color.
3. n. Architecture A flat horizontal band or member between moldings, especially in a classical entablature.
4. n. Chiefly British The dashboard of a motor vehicle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In Roman antiquity, a band, sash, or fillet of various forms and uses, worn around the head, the waist, the feet and legs, etc.
2. n. Hence In architecture, any flat member or molding with but little projection, as the narrow horizontal bands or broad fillets into which the architraves of Ionic and Corinthian entablatures are divided (see cut under column); also, in brick buildings, the jutting of the bricks beyond the windows in the several stories except the highest.
3. n. In botany, an encircling or transverse band or ridge.
4. n. In music:
5. n. A tie or bind.
6. n. The sides of a fiddle.
7. n. In astronomy, a belt of the planet Jupiter. See belt, 3
8. n. .
9. n. In surgery, a bandage, roller, or ligature.
10. n. In anat.:
11. n. A sheet or layer of condensed connective tissue, forming a fibrous membrane resembling tendon or ligament, spread out in a layer, and investing, confining, supporting, and separating or uniting some muscle or any other special tissue, part, or organ of the body; also, such tissue in general; an aponeurosis (which see). The general contour of the body is invested just beneath the skin with a thin, light fascia, known as the subcutaneous or superficial fascia, as distinguished from the thicker, tougher, and more distinctly fibrous deep fascia, which invests and forms sheaths for the muscles, and dips down among the muscles and bundles of muscular fibers, forming fibrous intermuscular septa. Fasciæ being simply condensed layers of the general fibrous connective tissue of the body, there is really no abrupt demarcation or definition between any of them; and the general system of fasciæ is continuous with ligaments, tendons, sinews, periosteum, etc.
12. n. Some fillet-like arrangement of parts; a band: as, the fascia dentata, the dentate fascia of the brain, the serrated band of gray matter lying alongside of and beneath the fimbria.
13. n. In zoology, a bar, band, or belt of color on the skin or its appendages, as hair, feathers, or scales: chiefly an ornithological term applied to broad crosswise markings, as distinguished from longitudinal stripes or streaks.

Wiktionary

1. n. A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing.
2. n. A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone.
3. n. A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.
4. n. A broad well-defined band of color.
5. n. A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
6. n. A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches.
7. n. 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.
8. n. UK A dashboard.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
2. n. (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. See Illust. of Column.
3. n. (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.
4. n. (Zoöl.) A broad well-defined band of color.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls
2. n. a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc