[a. F. fasciation: see FASCIA and -ATION.]
1. The binding up of a limb, etc., with bandages.
1650. J. Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis, xix. 190. By their constant and foolish Fasciation the Bones, which otherwise were streight, may be incurvated.
1704. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., Fasciation is a binding of Swathes about a Limb that is to be cured.
1889. Wagstaffe, Mayne’s Med. Voc., Fasciation, the binding up of a diseased or wounded part with bandages.
† b. concr. A bandage. Obs.
1658. Sir T. Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, ii. 107. Even Diadems themselves were but fasciations, and handsome ligatures, about the heads of Princes. Ibid. (1658), Hydriotaphia, i. 5. Of equall facility unto that rising power, able to break the fasciations and bands of death, to get clear out of the Cere-cloth, and an hundred pounds of oyntment, and out of the Sepulchre before the stone was rolled from it.
2. The process of becoming fasciated; also, fasciated condition (see FASCIATED 1).
1677. Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-shire, 148. The fasciation (if I may be allowed to coyn such a word) being as it were an attempt for two stalks.
1881. J. Gibbs, in Science Gossip, No. 203. 254. The growth of several buds from the same node of a stem does not often give rise to fasciation of the branches.
