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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fascia" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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 stone was rolled ...

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

... If so I plain my grief, the wanton boy will cry, If I lament his pride, he doth increase my pain; If tears my cheeks attaint, his cheeks are moist with moan; If I disclose the wounds the which my heart hath slain, He takes his fascia off, and wipes them dry anon. If so I walk the woods, the woods are his delight; If I myself torment, he bathes him in my blood; He will my soldier be if once I wend to fight, If seas delight, he steers my bark amidst the hood. In brief, the cruel ...

— Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles - Phillis - Licia • Thomas Lodge and Giles Fletcher

... basi ochraceis, fascia, apiceque late brunneo-nigris, margine postico subaurantiaco. ...

— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) • George Grey

Words linked to "Fascia" : Britain, connective tissue, facia, control panel, aponeurosis