FASCIA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: fasciae

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls

Synonyms:

dashboard; fascia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("fascia" is a kind of...):

board; control board; control panel; instrument panel; panel (electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices)

Domain region:

Britain (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc

Synonyms:

facia; fascia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("fascia" is a kind of...):

connective tissue (tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fascia"):

aponeurosis (any of the deeper and thicker fascia that attach muscles to bones; resemble flattened tendons)

Credits

Context examples:

One of two (deep circumflex and superficial circumflex) iliac arteries that supply the lower abdomen, inguinal lymph nodes, sartorius, and tensor fasciae latae.

(Circumflex Iliac Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The intercellular structures including the fascia adherens, gap junctions and macula adherens that connect single cardiac muscle cells to allow for synchronized contractions.

(Intercalated Disk, NCI Thesaurus)

Fascia adherens, similar to a zonula adherens, is a half Z line found in the cardiac muscle as one of the three intercalated disks.

(Fascia Adherens, NCI Thesaurus)

Inflammation of fascia.

(Fasciitis, Food and Drug Administration)

Inflammation process in fascia.