Facies (medical)
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In medical contexts, facies are distinctive facial expressions associated with specific medical conditions.
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 - william's 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
- mongoloid 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 - myotonica atropathica
- guerilla like face - acromegaly
- bovine facies or cow face - cranio fascial dysostosis or crouzons syndrome
- marshall halls facies - hydrocephalus
- frog face - intra nasal disease
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