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It's the same as a fuse box. Sort of. The electric service panel used to be called the fuse box, fuse panel,  circuit breaker panel, or any number of other terms. Today, most homes have what we call the electrical service panel, or simply, the service panel. It's not literally the same thing, but it does provide the same function.
This was known as a pattress box. Over time this became known as a pattress. Today many trade and DIY people refer to any electrical backbox as a pattress. There are also many that consider only surface mount boxes to be pattresses, and many that don't call any type of backbox a pattress.etal recessed pattresses are used to mount sockets & switches flush to a solid wall. A recess is chiselled out for the pattress to sit in. Knockouts are provided for cable entry. These are the most common domestic pattresses.