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In medical contexts, '''facies''' are distinctive facial expressions associated with specific [[medical condition]]s.

It comes from the Latin word for "face".<ref name="urlDorlands Medical Dictionary:facies">{{cite web |url=http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands_split.jsp?pg=/ppdocs/us/common/dorlands/dorland/three/000038177.htm |title=Dorlands Medical Dictionary:facies |work= |accessdate=}}</ref>

As a [[Latin_declension#Fifth_declension_.28e.29|fifth declension]] noun,<ref name="urlNOUNS OF THE FOURTH DECLENSION">{{cite web |url=http://webpages.ursinus.edu/classics/latin/nouns_fourthfifthdecl_forms.htm |title=NOUNS OF THE FOURTH DECLENSION |work= |accessdate=}}</ref> "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

==References==
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==External links==
* [[wikt:facies]]

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