fascia
Americannoun
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a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
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Also called fascia board. facia.
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Architecture.
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any relatively broad, flat, horizontal surface, as the outer edge of a cornice, a stringcourse, etc.
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any of a number of horizontal bands, usually three in number, each projecting beyond the one below to form the architrave in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders.
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Anatomy, Zoology.
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a band or sheath of connective tissue investing, supporting, or binding together internal organs or parts of the body.
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tissue of this kind.
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Zoology, Botany. a distinctly marked band of color.
noun
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the flat surface above a shop window
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architect a flat band or surface, esp a part of an architrave or cornice
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fibrous connective tissue occurring in sheets beneath the surface of the skin and between muscles and groups of muscles
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biology a distinctive band of colour, as on an insect or plant
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a less common name for dashboard
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a casing that fits over a mobile phone, with spaces for the buttons
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Etymology
Origin of fascia
1555–65; < Latin: band, bandage; akin to fasces
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I cannot abide the piano-black plastic fascia spilled onto the dash, centerstack, center console and doors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
His injury, known as a Morel-Lavallée lesion, is a rare degloving condition in which skin and fat become separated from fascia tissue, leaving a fluid-filled space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026
But at least they avoided piano-black plastic fascia, which is ubiquitous in this category.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
In the UK, Vector Homes is preparing to sell a licence for PureGRAPH to makers of plastic pellets that could be used to make construction materials such as fascia boards.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
An abscess may form between the vertebræ and the wall of the pharynx—retro-pharyngeal abscess—the pus accumulating between the diseased bones and the prevertebral layer of the cervical fascia.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
She had charts on her wall with exploded views of the human spine and the muscles and fasciae and nerve bundles that surrounded the spine and were connected to it.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 28, 2011
The beadings of the fasciae are enriched with the designs commonly known as 'rope,' 'bead-and-reel,' 'egg-and-dart,' and again 'bead-and-reel.'
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander
In the Byzantine doorways at Sta Sophia, Constantinople, a bold convex moulding and a hollow take the place of the fasciae of the classic architrave.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
The central fasciae of the frontal are the antagonists of the pyramidal; and if the action of the latter is to be specially checked, these central fasciae must be contracted.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles
More has been done in unravelling the mysteries of the fasciae, but there has been a tendency to overdo this kind of material analysis.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Florence Cooper, a tourist from Vancouver, stumbled upon a group of them on Monday dressed in their distinctive black cassocks and scarlet buttons, fascias and zucchettos.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2018
XTS: Caddy’s big car gets a mid-cycle refresh with updated front and rear fascias and an upgraded chassis for less noise and better ride comfort.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2017
The red, white and blue Sports Direct fascias are spreading rapidly.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2013
JD, whose high street fascias include JD Sports, Chausport, Size, Bank and Scotts, also said it had managed to increase its market share and margins during the period.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2010
We now know why it is that certain cases of suppuration are not circumscribed but diffuse, so that the pus dissects up the fascias and muscles and destroys with great rapidity the cellular tissue.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various
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