Definition of Fasciation

1. n. The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.

Definition of Fasciation

1. Noun. The binding-up of a limb etc. with bandages. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) A bandage. ¹

3. Noun. The process or state of being fasciated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fasciation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fasciation

fasciae
fascial
fascial hernia
fascial sheaths of extraocular muscles
fascialike
fascias
fasciate
fasciated
fasciated antshrike
fasciated antshrikes
fasciates
fasciating
fasciation (current term)
fasciations
fascicle
fascicled
fascicles
fasciclins
fascicular
fascicular block
fascicular cambium
fascicular degeneration
fascicular graft
fascicular keratitis
fascicular ophthalmoplegia
fascicular sarcoma
fascicular ulcer

Literary usage of Fasciation

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

1. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1915)
"fasciation Popular names for this abnormal method of growth are 'sports,' 'freaks,' ... The primary cause of fasciation remains to be discovered; ..."

2. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1913)
"fasciation Popular names for this abnormal method of growth are 'sports,' 'freaks,' ... The primary cause of fasciation remains to be discovered; ..."

3. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh (1922)
"In the illustration of a spruce fasciation here given (Fig. 47) we recog- nize the fact that the broadened axis is a single unit, first by the continued Fig ..."

4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1907)
"The fasciation of roots is comparatively infrequent, but Re- naudet in a ... 1886), although, perhaps owing to the early development of the fasciation, ..."

5. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"fasciation.—In the preceding instances of union between the branches, &c., ... fasciation in Lettuce. from the softness of the young tissues. ..."

6. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania by University of Pennsylvania Botanical Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Botanical Laboratory (1904)
"fasciation in the Sweet Potato. (WITH PLATE XIX.) BY HENRY S. CONARD, AM The occurrence of fasciation or broadening of normally round plant axes has been ..."

7. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1900)
"De Vries has established the inheritance of fasciation in eight plants. ... As an example Crepis biennis may be cited in which the fasciation appeared so ..."

8. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1871)
"THE LAW OF fasciation, AND ITS RELATION TO SEX IN PLANTS. By THOMAS MEEHAN, of Germantown, Penn. AT the last meeting of the Association Dr. Sterry Hunt ..."

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