In medical contexts, facies are distinctive facial expressions associated with specific medical conditions.
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It comes from the Latin word for "face".[1]
As a fifth declension noun,[2] "facies" can refer to the singular or plural.
Types
Examples include:
- Hippocratic face (also known as "hippocratic facies")-eyes are sunken, temples collapsed, nose is pinched with crusts on the lips and the forehead is clammy
- Moon face (also known as "Cushingoid facies")
- elfin facies
- Potter facies
- Parkinson facies
- Leonine facies
- Mitral facies
- Amiodarone facies-deep bluediscoloration around malar area and nose
- Acromegalic facies
- Down syndrome
- Marfanoid facies
- Myopathic facies
- Myotonic facies
- Myxoedematous facies
- Pagetic facies
- Rickets
- Thyrotoxic facies
- Turner's syndrome
- Uraemic facies
- Virile facies
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