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fascias fas·ci·a

Spelling: [fash-ee-uh for 1, 3–5; fey-sh Fascias is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in fascias (aacfiss).

Definitions for fascias

noun

1. a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
2. Also called fascia board. facia.
3. Architecture. any relatively broad, flat, horizontal surface, as the outer edge of a cornice, a stringcourse, etc. 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.
4. Anatomy, Zoology. a band or sheath of connective tissue investing, supporting, or binding together internal organs or parts of the body. tissue of this kind.
5. Zoology, Botany. a distinctly marked band of color.

Origin of fascias

1555-65; Latin: band, bandage; akin to fasces

Examples for fascias

But the fascia is the ground in which all causes of death do the destruction of life.

The fascia and skin should be brought into accurate apposition by sutures.

I know of no part of the body that equals the fascia as a hunting ground.

This life is surely too short to solve the uses of the fascia in animal forms.

The modern corset is a combination of the fascia and the zona.

A rare condition, it is a bacterial infection that tears through the body's fascia, destroying all tissue in its path.

The fascia lata adheres strongly to its anterior border for a considerable length.

Disease is just as liable to begin its work in the fascia and epithelium as any other place.

He of all men should know more of the fascia, and when disease is local or general.

It looks like an atom of white fibrin or detached particle of fascia.