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Deep fascia
Latin	fascia profunda
Dorlands/Elsevier	f_03/12355475

Deep fascia (or "investing fascia") is a layer of fascia which can surround individual muscles, and divide groups of muscles into compartments. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Elsevier, the world's largest Publisher of Medical and Scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group Fascia (făsh'ē-ə pl fas·ci·ae (făsh'ē-ē adj fascial (făsh'ē-əl (from Latin: a band is the Soft tissue component of

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Deep+fascia at eMedicine Dictionary

The fascia lata is the Deep fascia of the Thigh. Thickness It is an investment for the whole of the thigh but varies in thickness in different parts The crural fascia ( Deep fascia of the leg) forms a complete investment to the muscles and is fused with the periosteum over the subcutaneous surfaces of the bones The brachial Fascia ( Deep fascia of the arm) is continuous with that covering the Deltoideus and the Pectoralis major, by means of which it is Buck's fascia is a layer of Deep fascia covering the Penis. It is also known as the "deep fascia of the penis" eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base that was founded in 1996 by Scott Plantz and Richard Lavely two medical doctors

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