Fascia

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 38

fash′i-a, n. ( arch it. ) a flat space or band between mouldings: ( an at. ) a layer of condensed connective ti ue between some muscle and any other ti ue.— adjs. Fas′cial ; Fas′ciated .— n. Fasciā′tion ( bot. ), a form of monstrosity by the flattening of a single stem, or the lateral union of several stems. [L.]