In medical contexts, a facies is a distinctive facial expression or appearance 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 be both singular and 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 - Williams syndrome
- Potter facies - oligohydramnios
- mask like facies - parkinsonism
- Leonine facies - lepromatous leprosy
- Mitral facies - mitral stenosis
- Amiodarone facies (deep blue discoloration around malar area and nose)
- Acromegalic facies - acromegaly
- flat facies - Down's syndrome
- Marfanoid facies - Marfan's syndrome
- snarling facies - myasthenia gravis
- Myotonic facies - myotonic dystrophy
- torpid facies - myxoedema
- mouse facies - chronic renal failure
- plethoric facies - Cushing's syndrome and polycythemia vera
- 'bird-like' facies- Pierre Robin sequence
- ashen grey facies - myocardial infarction
- gargoyle facies - Hurler's syndrome
- monkey facies - marasmus
- hatchet facies - myotonia atrophica
- gorilla-like face - acromegaly
- bovine facies or cow face - craniofacial dysostosis or crouzons syndrome
- marshall halls facies - hydrocephalus
- frog face - intra nasal disease
- Coarse facies - many inborn errors of metabolism
- Adenoid facies - developmental facial traits caused by adenoid hypertrophy, nasal airway obstruction and mouthbreathing; really a form of long face syndrome.
- Lion-like facies - involvement of craniofacial bones in Paget disease of Bone
Disorders associated with syndromic facies
References
- ^ "Dorlands Medical Dictionary:facies".
- ^ "NOUNS OF THE FOURTH DECLENSION". Archived from the original on 2008-07-20.
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