fascia
IPA: fɑstʃʌ
noun
- (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.
- A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone.
- (UK) A dashboard.
- (architecture) 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.
- (ecclesiastical, fashion) A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches.
- (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.
- The signboard above a shop or other location open to the public.
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Examples of "fascia" in Sentences
- The fascia lata is the deep fascia of the thigh.
- Note the shiny surface of the deep temporal fascia.
- The alar fascia is a portion of deep cervical fascia.
- The crural fascia is a continuation of the fascia lata.
- Deep fascia is less extensible than superficial fascia.
- Buck's fascia is a layer of deep fascia covering the penis.
- The cervical fascia is fascia found in the region of the neck.
- Technically, the fascia is not a vestment, but is part of choir dress.
- The 'lumbar fascia' is a anatomic fascia that covers the lumbar region.
- A midline incision is carried down to the linea alba and the fascia is incised.
- The plantar fascia is a tough, rubber-band-like structure on the bottom of the foot.
- However the fascia, which is a tough membrane surrounding the muscle, won't allow the muscle to swell, causing pressure.
- "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."
- 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 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.
- 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.
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