Fascia

The membranous, fibrous covering of muscles and other organs. In biology, applied to any broad, transverse band of color on the hair, feathers, scales, or stems. F., Anal. See F., Ischio-rectal. F. of Arm (Brachial), invests the muscles of the arm attached to the clavicle, acromion, and spine of the scapula. F., Cervical, Deep, invests the muscles of the neck and encloses the ve els and nerves. F., Cervical, Superficial, that just beneath the skin. F., Cloquet's. See Septum crurale. FM Cranial, a firm, dense layer, adherent to the skin and occipito-frontal is muscle. F., Crem a steric, forms a looped, thin covering of the spermatic cord. F., Cribriform, the sievelike covering of the saphenous opening. F. dentata, a serrated band of cinerea of the hippocampal gyrus of the cerebrum. F. of the Dorsum of the Foot, forms a sheath for the dorsal tendons of the foot. F., Iliac, lines the back part of the abdominal cavity, covering the psoas and iliacus muscles. F., Infundibuliform, the funnel-shaped membrane enclosing the spermatic cord and testis in a distinct pouch. F., Intercolumnar, from the margins of the external abdominal ring, forming a sheath for the cord and testis. F., Intercostal, a thin, firm layer of fascia covering the outer surface of the external intercostal and the inner surface of the internal intercostal muscles. F., Ischio-rectal, covers the perineal aspect of the levator ani muscle. F. lat a, the dense fibrous aponeurosis surrounding the thigh, called the Deep F. of the Thigh. F., Deep, of Leg, continuous with the last, surrounds the leg. F., Lumbar, the posterior aponeurois of the transversal is muscle, divided into three layers. F. of Mamma, part of the superficial fascia of the thorax, whicli divides into two layers, one pa ing in front, and one behind the mamma. F. nodosa, Packer's Knot, a knotted bandage formerly used to make compre ion over the temporal artery. F., Obturator, continuation of the pelvic, surrounding the obturator muscle. F., Pelvic, lines the cavity of the pelvis, continuous with the transversal is and the iliac fascia. F., Perineal, the. deep, called the triangular ligament, closes the front part of the outlet of the pelvis; it is attached to the pubes and rami of the ischium. F., Plantar, the fibrous membrane of the sole of the foot. F., Recto-vesical, the visceral layer of the pelvic fascia, investing the prostate, bladder, and rectum.