Disease or Syndrome
fasciitis Audio
fas·ci·i·tis [ fash-ee-ahy-tis, fas- ]
Subclass of:
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Definitions related to fasciitis:
  • Inflammation of fascia, the tissue under the skin and over the muscle.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • Inflammation of the fascia. There are three major types: 1, Eosinophilic fasciitis, an inflammatory reaction with eosinophilia, producing hard thickened skin with an orange-peel configuration suggestive of scleroderma and considered by some a variant of scleroderma; 2, Necrotizing fasciitis (FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING), a serious fulminating infection (usually by a beta hemolytic streptococcus) causing extensive necrosis of superficial fascia; 3, Nodular/Pseudosarcomatous /Proliferative fasciitis, characterized by a rapid growth of fibroblasts with mononuclear inflammatory cells and proliferating capillaries in soft tissue, often the forearm; it is not malignant but is sometimes mistaken for fibrosarcoma.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Inflammation process in fascia.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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