Meaning

noun a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc

noun instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls

originBorrowed from Latin fascia (“a band, bandage, swathe”). Related to fascēs (“bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade projecting”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”). Cognate with fajita, fess, and fascism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0