Fascia

Quick meaning: Fascia is a noun meaning A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone.

Meaning

A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone.

More Meanings

1. (UK) A dashboard.
2. (architecture) A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands that make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.
3. A broad well-defined band of color.
4. A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
5. (ecclesiastical, fashion) A sash worn with a cassock by clergy of the Catholic and Anglican churches.
6. (architecture) 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.
7. (anatomy) The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing muscles and organs; an aponeurosis.

Example Sentences

Close-up of the fascia surrounding a muscle in an unembalmed cadaver.

The deepest layer of cervical fascia consists of two main subdivisions: the alar and prevertebral fasciae.

The superficial fascia surrounds the body and includes subcutaneous fat; the deep fascia surrounds the musculoskeletal system; the meningeal fascia surrounds the nervous system; the visceral fascia surrounds body cavities and organs.

2017, Andrea Pasini, Antonio Stecco, Carla Stecco, 19: Fascial Anatomy of the Viscera, Torsten Liem, Paolo Tozzi, Anthony Chila (editors), Fascia in the Osteopathic Field, Handspring Publishing, page 173, This is evidence that the insertional fasciae are the ones that provide the connections between internal fasciae and muscular fascia, and between the different organs. The same pattern can be applied to the fasciae that surround the glands.

Word Forms

• fascias
• fasciae

Synonyms for fascia

Depending on context, synonyms include frieze, case, dashboard, sash, facia.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include facia, pane, panel, bracket, strip, strake.

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