fascia
noun
a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
fasciae
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pluralof fascia.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 Alexander Van Millingen
Why should grief or anxiety cause the central fasciae alone of the frontal muscle together with those round the eyes, to contract?
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
Besides, there are fasciae running all round under the cymatia on the jambs, and apportioned so as to be equal to three sevenths of a jamb, excluding the cymatium.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
