In a cadaver, fascia appears solid, very unlike its fluid appearance in a living being. And so, it has been scraped away by medical students, in order to get a better look at the other structures ...

She was very interested in fascia, she told me — so much so that she’d spent a week studying the tissue up close at a cadaver dissection workshop in Colorado Springs. Cue the proverbial record ...

Fascia fuses skin to muscle and muscle to bone, and it kind of keeps everything in place, like a snug pair of pantyhose. ... So I head to the cadaver lab in the basement of Stanford University.

Cadaveric fascia and porcine xenografts tend to be less durable and are associated with less predictable clinical outcomes than synthetic slings. PTFE ...