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See also:FASCIA (Latin for a bandage or See also:fillet)
, a See also:term used for many See also:objects which resemble a See also:band in shape; thus in See also:anatomy it is applied to the layers of fibrous connective See also:tissue which sheathe
the muscles or See also:cover various parts or See also:organs in the See also:body, and in See also:zoology, and particularly in See also:ornithology, to bands or stripes of See also:colour
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In See also:architecture the word is used of the bands into which the See also:architrave of the Ionic and Corinthian orders is subdivided; their origin would seem to have been derived from the superimposing of two or more beams of See also:timber to span the opening between columns and to support a superincumbent See also:weight; the upper See also:beam projected slightly in front of the See also:lower, and similar projections were continued in the See also: |
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