fascia

fascia

See also: fàscia

English

Pope Benedict XVI wearing a white fascia, while a cardinal is seated near him (partially obscured from view) wearing a red fascia (sense 7).

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fascia (“a band, bandage, swathe”). Related to fascēs (“bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade projecting”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”). Doublet of fajita, fess, and fascism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæʃə/, /ˈfæʃjə/, /ˈfæʃi.ə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪʃə/, /ˈfeɪʃjə/, /ˈfeɪʃi.ə/ (especially sense 1)

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• Rhymes: -æʃə

Noun

fascia (plural fascias or fasciae)

1. (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.

   Synonym: frieze

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

   Synonym: case

3. (UK) A dashboard.

   Synonym: dashboard

4. (architecture) A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands that make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.
5. A broad well-defined band of color.
6. A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
7. (ecclesiastical, fashion) A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches.

   Synonym: sash

8. (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.
   • 2006, Dennis E. McDonnell, Steven J. Harrison, 10: Retropharyngeal Approach to the Occipitocervical Junction, Richard G. Fessler, Laligam N. Sekhar (editors), Atlas of Neurosurgical Techniques: Spine and Peripheral Nerves, Thieme Medical Publishers, page 89,

     The deepest layer of cervical fascia consists of two main subdivisions: the alar and prevertebral fasciae.

   • 2017, David Lesondak, Fascia: What it is and Why it Matters, Handspring Publishing, page 3,

     Figure 1.1
     Close-up of the fascia surrounding a muscle in an unembalmed cadaver.

   • 2017, Andrea Pasini, Antonio Stecco, Carla Stecco, 19: Fascial Anatomy of the Viscera, Torsten Liem, Paolo Tozzi, Anthony Chila (editors), Fascia in the Osteopathic Field, Handspring Publishing, page 173,

     This is evidence that the insertional fasciae are the ones that provide the connections between internal fasciae and muscular fascia, and between the different organs. The same pattern can be applied to the fasciae that surround the glands.

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

Usage notes

The plural fascias is used for the first five definitions while fasciae is used for the sixth.

Related terms

• fascial

Derived terms

• Abernethy's fascia
• Buck's fascia
• fascia adherens
• fascia bulbi
• fascial
• fascia lata
• plantar fascia
• superficial fascia
• transversalis fascia

 

Translations

band of material covering the ends of roof rafters

Bulgarian: корниз (bg) (korniz) Dutch: boeiboord (nl) n, boeideel n Finnish: räystäslauta, päätylauta Portuguese: fáscia f Russian: фа́сция (ru) f (fáscija)

face or front cover of an appliance

Bulgarian: арматурно табло (armaturno tablo) Finnish: etulevy

architecture: one of the three bands which make up the architrave

Finnish: palkki (fi)

broad well-defined band of color

Bulgarian: полоса f (polosa) Finnish: raita (fi), väriraita Russian: полоса́ (ru) f (polosá), поло́ска (ru) f (polóska)

band, sash, or fillet

Bulgarian: лента (bg) f (lenta), бинт m (bint) Finnish: nauha (fi) Russian: поясо́к (ru) m (pojasók), ле́нта (ru) f (lénta), бинт (ru) m (bint)

tissue

Catalan: fàscia f Chinese: Mandarin: 筋膜 (jīnmó) Czech: povázka f, fascie f Finnish: kalvo (fi); ihonalaiskudos (fi) (loose, fatty issue under skin), sidekalvo (connective tissue covering muscles), kalvojänne (aponeurosis), peitinkalvo (fi), faskia (fi) German: Faszie (de) f Hungarian: bőnye (hu) Kazakh: шандыр (şandyr) Russian: фа́сция (ru) f (fáscija) Spanish: fascia f Swedish: fascia (sv) c Turkish: fasya

dashboard — see dashboard

Anagrams

• AFAICS, facias

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin fascia. Compare Spanish faja, Portuguese faixa, Romanian fașă.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃa/
• Rhymes: -aʃʃa
• Hyphenation: fà‧scia

Noun

fascia f (plural fasce)

1. strip, band
2. bandage
3. sash
4. (geography) belt
5. (heraldry) fess

See also

• bandana

Anagrams

• Caifas, fiasca, scafai

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Latin

Etymology

See fascis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.ki.a/, [ˈfäs̠kiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfaʃ.ʃi.a/, [ˈfäʃːiä]

Noun

fascia f (genitive fasciae); first declension

1. band, bandage, swathe, strip, ribbon
2. (New Latin) necktie
   • 2003, J. K. Rowling (Translation by Peter Needham), Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, page 2:

     Dominus Dursley bombiebat dum fasciam hebetissimi coloris eligebat idoneam ad negotia gerenda

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fascia	fasciae
Genitive	fasciae	fasciārum
Dative	fasciae	fasciīs
Accusative	fasciam	fasciās
Ablative	fasciā	fasciīs
Vocative	fascia	fasciae

Derived terms

• fasciō
• fasciola

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: fashi, fashe
  • Istro-Romanian: foşă
  • Romanian: fașă, fâșie
• Northern Italian:
  • Romagnol: fasa
• Istriot: fasa
• Italian: fascia
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: faxa
    • → Spanish: faja
• Old French: faisse, fece
  • French: fasce (re-Latinized)
  • → English: fess
  • → Dutch: faas
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: faxa, facha, faza
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: faixa
  • Occitan: faissa
• Old Portuguese:
  • Galician: faixa
  • Portuguese: faixa
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: haza
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: fasse
• Sardinian: fàsca, fàscia, fassa
• Venetian: fasa
  • → Cimbrian: béesa
• → Albanian: fashë
• → Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐌺𐌾𐌰 (faskja)
• → Koine Greek: φασκία (phaskía)
  • Greek: φασκιά (faskiá)
• → Spanish: fascia

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fascia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, 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

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fascia. Doublet of faja and haza.

Noun

fascia f (plural fascias)

1. (anatomy) fascia (a layer of loose tissue)

Further reading

• “fascia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014