Fascia

What do we mean by fascia?

A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue enveloping, separating, or binding together muscles, organs, and other soft structures of the body. noun

A broad and distinct band of color. noun

A flat horizontal band or member between moldings, especially in a classical entablature. noun

The shape or styling of the front or rear end of an automobile. noun

The dashboard of a motor vehicle. noun

In Roman antiquity, a band, sash, or fillet of various forms and uses, worn around the head, the waist, the feet and legs, etc. noun

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. noun

In botany, an encircling or transverse band or ridge. noun

In music: noun

A tie or bind. noun

The sides of a fiddle. noun

In astronomy, a belt of the planet Jupiter. See belt, 3 noun

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In surgery, a bandage, roller, or ligature. noun

In anat.: noun

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). noun

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. noun

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. noun

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

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. noun

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.

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

A dashboard.

A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands that make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.

A broad well-defined band of color.

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

A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches.

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.

The signboard above a shop or other location open to the public.

Words that are spelled similarly to fascia:
fascia, facia, fasci, fascio, mascia, cascia, ascia, fascina, fascin, fascis, fuscia, fasci-, fasciæ, fscia.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word fascia:
platysma, fascial, saphenous, urogenital, soffit, aponeurosis, dorsum, protrusion, suffusion, perineal, costal, obturator, perineum, gluteus, inguinal, taillights, integument, inwardly, apical, medially, fuscous, iliac, distally, anteriorly, confluent, plantar, suffused, scrotum, blackish, prolongation, edged, medial, dilated, blotch, diaphragm, connective, grille, outwardly, dentate, cilia, superficial, femoral, apex, costa, narrowing, oblique, transverse, subcutaneous, distal, indistinct, pubic, posterior, thigh, sheath, stigmata, whitish, attenuated, spoiler, dorsal, cervical, ligament, anterior, obliquely, purplish, paler, forewing, pelvic, inwards, silvery, pale, bumper, elongate, fibrous, proximal, abdominal, penis, undefined, pelvis, muscles, yellowish, basal, fold, bluish, laterally, tendon, metallic, tinged, sprinkled, stigma, anal, scales, bending, cloudy, dots, outwards, chrome, downwards, irregular, vein, muscle.

Words that rhyme with fascia:
cassia, brassia, bassia, horse cassia, purging cassia, genus cassia, fascia a.

Adjectives that are often used to describe fascia:
deep, superficial, cervical, pelvic, temporal, palmar, prevertebral, endopelvic, renal, spermatic, external, pectoral, lumbar, anterior, perineal, lumbodorsal, underlying, pretracheal, subcutaneous, clavipectoral, abdominal, internal, pubocervical, inferior, posterior, cribriform, antebrachial, thin, dense, oblique, parotid, strong, visceral, endothoracic, vesical, axillary, dorsal, buccopharyngeal, transversalis, orbital, pharyngobasilar, superior, cremasteric, lateral, muscular, brachial, perirenal, popliteal, plantar, rectal, presacral, parietal, interosseous, rectus, rectovaginal, thick, dentate, vaginal, anal, rectovesical, overlying, broad, intercolumnar, bicipital, dartos, masseteric, lacrimal, adjacent, pectineal, pectoralis, periurethral, subserous, tough, medial, palpebral, autogenous, tight, diseased, pharyngeal, levator, contracted, prostatic, alar, intermuscular, perirectal, fat, thoracic, lateroconal, iliacus, perinephric, deltoid, capsulopalpebral, subjacent.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective fascia:
flap, graft, closure, architrave, repair, grafts, board, transversalis, sling, flaps.

Consonant match to fascia:
facia, fishery, fishier, fascia a, fischer e, fisher e, fisher he.

Words that sound like fascia:
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