noun
fascia
a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc
In a sentence
Six example sentences with fascia, each labelled with its topic.
The surgeon opened the abdominal wall layer by layer, pausing at the tough white fascia before reaching anything vascular.
Medicine
Rolling a lacrosse ball under the arch stretches the fascia that runs from heel to toes and eases morning stiffness.
Fitness
The center's plantar fascia tore in November, and the sheath along the sole took five months to bear full weight.
Basketball
Trim the silvery fascia from the tenderloin before roasting, since that sheet of tissue tightens and turns chewy in the heat.
Cooking
Researchers found that fascia contains its own sensory nerves, which may explain aches that scans never locate.
Science
Vesalius drew the fascia in careful layers, correcting descriptions from Galen that had stood for over a thousand years.
History
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