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Facies (medical)

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Types

Examples include:

  • 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") – Cushing's syndrome
  • Elfin facies – Williams syndrome, Donohue syndrome
  • Potter facies – oligohydramnios
  • Mask like facies – parkinsonism
  • Leonine facies – lepromatous leprosy or craniometaphyseal dysplasia
  • Mitral facies – mitral stenosis
  • Amiodarone facies (deep blue discoloration around malar area and nose)
  • Acromegalic facies – acromegaly
  • Flat facies – Down syndrome
  • Marfanoid facies – Marfan's syndrome
  • Snarling facies – myasthenia gravis
  • Myotonic facies – myotonic dystrophy
  • Torpid facies – myxoedema
  • Mouse facies – chronic kidney failure
  • Plethoric facies – Cushing's syndrome and polycythemia vera
  • Bird 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 Crouzon syndrome
  • Marshall halls facies – hydrocephalus
  • Frog face – intranasal 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
  • Chipmunk facies – beta thalassemia
  • Treacher Collins syndrome – deformities of the ears, eyes, cheekbones, and chin

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