From Latin fascia 'band, bandage,' used in architecture for flat strips and in anatomy for the connective tissue wrapping muscles.
A sheet of connective tissue covering or binding together muscles, organs, and other structures in the body.
From Latin fascia 'band, bandage, strip, ribbon,' related to fascis 'bundle.' In architecture, a fascia is a flat horizontal band. Anatomists adopted it for the fibrous tissue that wraps muscles like a bandage. The Roman fasces—a bundle of rods bound with a strip—shares the same root. Key