facia

What does facia mean?

facia means "a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc".

How many syllables are in facia?

facia has 3 syllables and divides as fa-ci-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for facia?

Close synonyms include fascia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is facia a common word?

facia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for facia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.