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Webster 1913 Edition
Fascia
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1.
A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
2.
(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
. 3.
(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.
4.
(Zool.)
A broad well-defined band of color.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fascia
FAS'CIA
,Noun.
1.
A band, sash or fillet. In architecture, any flat member with a small projecture, as the band of an architrave. Also, in brick buildings, the jutting of the bricks beyond the windows in the several stories except the highest.2.
In astronomy, the belt of a planet.3.
In surgery, a bandage, roller or ligature.4.
In anatomy, a tendinous expansion or aponeurosis; a thin tendinous covering which surrounds the muscles of the limbs, and binds them in their places.Definition 2024
fascia
fascia
English
Noun
fascia (plural fascias or fasciae)
Pope Benedict XVI wearing a white fascia, while a cardinal is seated near him (partially obscured from view) wearing a red fascia.
- 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 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.
- (anatomy) 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.
- (Britain) A dashboard.
Derived terms
Translations
band of material covering the ends of roof rafters
face or front cover of an appliance
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broad well-defined band of color
band, sash, or fillet
tissue
dashboard — see dashboard
Usage notes
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃa/
- Hyphenation: fà‧scia
Noun
fascia f (plural fasce)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
See fasces
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfas.ki.a/
Noun
fascia f (genitive fasciae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fascia | fasciae |
| genitive | fasciae | fasciārum |
| dative | fasciae | fasciīs |
| accusative | fasciam | fasciās |
| ablative | fasciā | fasciīs |
| vocative | fascia | fasciae |
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Descendants
References
- fascia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fascia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- FASCIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fascia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- fascia in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- fascia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fascia in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin