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Fasanara Capital

Fasanara Capital is a London-based alternative asset manager founded in 2011 by Francesco Filia, specializing in fintech lending, private credit, and digital assets, with $6 billion under management.

Fasces

The fasces (Latin fascis, bundle) were Roman bundles of rods bound around an axe, carried by lictors as emblems of magisterial power, later adopted by republics and by Mussolini's fascism.

Fascia

Fascia is a sheet or band of collagen-rich connective tissue beneath the skin that attaches, encloses, and separates muscles and organs, divided into superficial, deep, parietal, and visceral types.

Fascia iliaca compartment block

The fascia iliaca compartment block, or fascia iliaca block, is a regional anesthesia technique used mainly for pain control in hip fracture and hip and knee surgery.

Fascial plane block

A fascial plane block is a regional anesthesia technique injecting local anesthetic between fascial layers to numb multiple nerves, used in abdominal, chest, and breast surgery.

Fasciation

Fasciation is a plant malformation in which the growing tip produces flattened, often twisted shoots that look like several stems fused, a growth sometimes described as crested.

Fasciculation, also called muscle twitching or benign fasciculation when isolated, is an involuntary visible contraction of one motor unit arising from the lower motor neuron; common in healthy people, a sign of ALS when paired with weakness, and part of the peripheral nerve hyperexcitability spectrum.

Fasciectomy

Fasciectomy is a surgical procedure that removes diseased fascia, performed most often to straighten fingers bent by Dupuytren's contracture; open partial fasciectomy is the mainstay treatment.

Fasciitis or fibromatosis

Fasciitis or fibromatosis (FB51.2) is an ICD-11 fibroblastic disorders code covering nodular fasciitis, also called pseudosarcomatous fibromatosis, a rare benign rapidly growing subcutaneous soft tissue tumor.

Fascin

Fascin (FSCN1), a 55 kDa globular monomeric actin-bundling protein with four β-trefoil domains, cross-links actin into tight ~8 nm-spaced parallel bundles in filopodia; overexpressed in metastatic cancer, targeted by phase 2 inhibitors.

Fascinator

Fascinator: decorative women's headpiece on a comb, clip, or headband, no brim or crown; originally an 18th-19th-century lace or knitted scarf, renamed by Mr. John in the 1960s; banned from Royal Ascot's Royal Enclosure.

Oct 15, 2026

Fascine

A fascine is a long bundle of brushwood used in military engineering to fill ditches and cross soft ground, famously carried by tanks at Cambrai in 1917.

Fascinus

Fascinus (fascinum), Roman divine phallus and phallic amulet against the evil eye (fascinatio); worshipped by Vestals, hung under triumphal chariots and on children; source of "fascinate."

Fasciola

Fasciola: genus of liver fluke trematodes; species F. hepatica and F. gigantica infect sheep, cattle, and humans via watercress and lymnaeid snails, causing fascioliasis, a WHO neglected tropical disease.

Fasciola hepatica

Fasciola hepatica, the common or sheep liver fluke, is a large trematode of ruminant bile ducts that also causes human fascioliasis via watercress-borne metacercariae; treated with triclabendazole, found in over 70 countries.

Fasciolariidae

Fasciolariidae, the tulip, spindle, and horse conch snails (Gray, 1853), is a monophyletic neogastropod family of over 500 predatory marine species with Cretaceous origins, fusiform shells, and non-drilling predation on other mollusks.

Fascioliasis

Fascioliasis, liver fluke disease caused by Fasciola hepatica and F. gigantica, a foodborne zoonotic neglected tropical disease spread by raw watercress and contaminated water, treated with triclabendazole.

Fasciolidae

Fasciolidae, the liver fluke family of digenean trematodes including Fasciola hepatica, F. gigantica, and Fasciolopsis buski; parasites of mammalian livers and intestines causing fascioliasis, a WHO neglected tropical disease.

Fasciotomy

Fasciotomy is an emergency surgical procedure that cuts the fascia enclosing a muscle compartment to lower pressure and restore blood flow, the only recognized treatment for acute compartment syndrome.

Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology that places the nation above the individual; it first took shape in Europe in the twentieth century.

Fascism and ideology

Fascism and ideology: the doctrinal content of fascism, from the 1932 Doctrine of Fascism to Griffin's palingenetic ultranationalism and Paxton's action-based view, plus the Italy–Germany comparison and historiographical debate.

Fascism in Europe

Fascism in Europe: far-right ultranationalist movements and regimes, also called National Socialism in Germany, founded by Mussolini in Italy in 1919, dominant in Italy and Germany 1922–1945, defeated in World War II.

Fascism in France

Fascism in France is the history of fascist and proto-fascist movements, which produced rich theory yet, before 1940, never built a mass base or found a single undisputed leader.

Fascism in the United States

Fascism in the United States covers interwar fascist movements like the German American Bund and the Silver Legion, and the ongoing scholarly debate over whether populism, Trumpism, or other currents qualify as fascist.

Fascist Manifesto

Fascist Manifesto (Manifesto dei Fasci italiani di combattimento, Programma di San Sepolcro): the founding 1919 program of Mussolini's Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, published in Il Popolo d'Italia on 6 June 1919; distinct from the 1925 Gentile intellectual manifesto.

Sep 24, 2026

Fascist racial and repressive legislation in occupied Ethiopia (1936–1937)

The Fascist racial and repressive legislation in occupied Ethiopia was a body of Italian decrees issued from June 1936 to late 1937, separating Italians from Ethiopians.

Fascist symbolism

Fascist symbolism covers the emblems, gestures, and staged ceremonies of fascist regimes: the Roman fasces adopted by Mussolini's National Fascist Party in 1921, the swastika marches of Nazi Germany, Franco's 1937 outstretched-arm salute, and their postwar bans and survivals.

Fascisti su Marte

Fascisti su Marte (Fascists on Mars) is a 2006 Italian satirical sci-fi comedy by Corrado Guzzanti and Igor Skofic, parodying Istituto Luce newsreels as fascist blackshirts led by gerarca Barbagli conquer Mars in 1938-39; born from RAI 3's Il caso Scafroglia sketches.