fasciation

Noun

fasciation (countable and uncountable, plural fasciations)

1. The binding up of a limb, etc., with bandages.
2. (obsolete) A bandage.
   • […] able to break the fasciations and bands of death […]1658, Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 7
3. The process or state of being fasciated.
   1. Abnormal growth in vascular plants in which the apical meristem (growing tip) becomes elongated perpendicularly to the direction of growth, thus producing flattened, ribbon-like, crested, or elaborately contorted tissue.
      • These odd-looking shoots are not diseased but are the result of a fairly common condition known as "fasciation" that affects shoots on all sorts of plants quite randomly and for no apparent reason, but presumed by plant experts to be the result of damage to buds just as the shoots were starting to...2015 March 28, Helen Yemm, “Thorny problems: what should I do about the invasion of the spanish slug?”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), page G9