Definition of Facia

1. Noun. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.

Exact synonyms: Fascia
Generic synonyms: Connective Tissue
Specialized synonyms: Aponeurosis

Definition of Facia

1. n. See Fascia.

Definition of Facia

1. Noun. The signboard above a shop or other location open to the public. ¹

2. Noun. The plate forming the basis of the control panel for a vehicle or device ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Facia

1. fascia [n -CIAE or -CIAS] - See also: fascia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Facia

faceting
facetious
facetiously
facetiousness
facetiousnesses
facetlike
facets
facetted
facetting
facety
faceup
faceward
facework
faceworker
faceworkers
facia (current term)
faciae
facial angle
facial axis
facial bones
facial canal
facial cleft
facial colliculus
facial cream
facial creams
facial diplegia
facial eczema

Literary usage of Facia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practice of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, in Personal by William Tidd, Francis Joseph Troubat, Asa Israel Fish, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1856)
"... in the King's Bench, without any previous fieri facia«, or return of nulla bona ;(kfc) but in the Common Pleas or Exchequer, &c., the bail are not ..."

2. The United States and the States Under the Constitution by Christopher Stuart Patterson (1888)
"The distinction between retrospective and ex post facia laws. 80. Ex post facto laws defined. 81. Illustrations of »x post facto laws. 82. ..."

3. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"... maxima facia patrum etc., cf. ib. 1, 117. Cato mai. 73. 101. His greatest renown Ennius gained as an epic poet, by his eighteen books of Ann ales, ..."

4. The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal (1847)
"vaginalis communia with the facia transversalis, I spoke of the agency of this muscle in the descontó!" the testicle—of its two points of origin, ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States by Stephen Keyes Williams, Edwin Burritt Smith, Ernest Hitchcock (1882)
"... facia* in" the name of his administratrix. While the suit was still depending, the administratrix intermarried with FA, which marriage was pleaded ¡mix ..."

6. The Upper Canada Law Journal and Municipal and Local Courts' Gazette by Canadian Bar Association (1858)
"These facts would show, prima facia, that of the votes on the copy of the assessment roll, polled, the relator had a majority without counting those of Mr. ..."

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