Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Anatomy A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue enveloping, separating, or binding together muscles, organs, and other soft structures of the body.
- n. A broad and distinct band of color.
- n. Architecture A flat horizontal band or member between moldings, especially in a classical entablature.
- n. Chiefly British The dashboard of a motor vehicle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- 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.
- n. In botany, an encircling or transverse band or ridge.
- n. In music:
- n. A tie or bind.
- n. The sides of a fiddle.
- n. In astronomy, a belt of the planet Jupiter. See belt, 3
- n. .
- n. In surgery, a bandage, roller, or ligature.
- n. In anat.:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- n. A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone.
- n. A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.
- n. A broad well-defined band of color.
- n. A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
- n. A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches.
- 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.
- n. UK A dashboard.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
- 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. - 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.
- n. (Zoöl.) A broad well-defined band of color.
WordNet 3.0
- n. instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls
- n. a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc
Etymologies
- From Latin fascia ("a band, bandage, swathe"). Related to fascēs ("bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade projecting"), from Proto-Indo-European bʰasko- "band, bundle". (Wiktionary)
- Latin, band. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Skin; dartos muscle; Colles 'fascia; external spermatic fascia; cremastric muscle & fascia; internal spermatic fascia& tunica vaginalis the dartos muscle is innervated by sympathetic nerve & contraction ofdartosmuscle wrinkles the scrotum & reducing heat loss.”
“The plantar fascia is a tough, rubber-band-like structure on the bottom of the foot.”
“You end up training fascia, which is not prepared for life, because life doesn't come at you right straight down the same vectors that the machines do.”
“However the fascia, which is a tough membrane surrounding the muscle, won't allow the muscle to swell, causing pressure.”
“The portion of fascia covering this fossa is perforated by the great saphenous vein and by numerous blood and lymphatic vessels, hence it has been termed the fascia cribrosa, the openings for these vessels having been likened to the holes in a sieve.”
“Immediately lateral to the femoral vessels the iliac fascia is prolonged backward and medialward from the inguinal ligament as a band, the iliopectineal fascia, which is attached to the iliopectineal eminence.”
“The body is ensheathed by fascia, which is continuous above with the fascia of Scarpa, and below with the dartos tunic of the scrotum and the fascia of Colles.”
“But the fascia is the ground in which all causes of death do the destruction of life.”
“And as the fascia is the best suited with nerves, blood, and white corpuscles, it is but reasonable to look for the part that is composed of the greatest per cent of fascia, and expect it, the germ, to dwell there for support and growth.”
“And as all excressences and abnormal growths, diseases and conditions, must have the friendly assistance of the fascia before development; the fascia is the place to look for cause of disease and the place to consult and begin the action of remedies in all diseases, even though it be the birth of a child.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fascia’.
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phrontistery - f
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Logolepsy
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stripes and bands
variegated armadillos and other asundry bands and stripes
fajada, raye, apar, fasciated, hemigalus, numbat, onyx, tatouay, tortrix, coquina, peba, myrmecobius and 113 more...
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Anatomically Correct
canthus, vibrissa, femoral, sphenoid, dura mater, pia mater, epiglottis, glottis, mons veneris, plaque, tibia, ulna and 96 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
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Castles and Keeps
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
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favorite words
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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jgs's Words
liminal, luminescence, trajectory, simulacrum, thundersnow, trappings, rigour, temporality, mammalian, diffuse, tearing, flail and 83 more...
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tissue
parenchyma, cartilage, stroma, fascia, gristle, skin, xylem, keloid, cementum, ligament, dissepiment
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wilywillamina's list
Stuff I dig.
douchebaggery, omphalophobia, onimancy, grammerletist, logophile, lexiphanicism, pharmacopoeia, excerebrose, thoughtcrime, lickspigot, quantum materiae ..., hyperbaton and 19 more...
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Stuck On Me
Bandages. Unmedicated.
chiastre, elastoplast, Band-Aid, triangular bandage, plaster bandage, roller bandage, scarf bandage, spiral bandage, elastic bandage, four-tailed bandage, immovable bandage, oblique bandage and 36 more...
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Streak
Words related to streak.
fascia, vitta, ray, linea, stria, band, belt, bar, taenia, nota, notae, striation
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