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Descriptor English: Facies
Descriptor Spanish: Facies
Descriptor facies
Scope note: Aspecto de la cara que, a menudo, es característico de una enfermedad o estado patológico, como la cara de elfo del SÍNDROME DE WILLIAMS o la facies del SÍNDROME DE DOWN. (Traducción libre del original: Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed).
Descriptor Portuguese: Fácies
Descriptor French: Faciès
Tree number(s): C23.550.291.812
E01.370.600.230
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019066
Scope note: The appearance of the face that is often characteristic of a disease or pathological condition, as the elfin facies of WILLIAMS SYNDROME or facies of DOWN SYNDROME. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
Annotation: do not confuse with FACIAL EXPRESSION, a psychol response; coord IM with assoc dis (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
DeCS ID: 32751
Unique ID: D019066
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1996/01/01
Date of Entry: 1995/05/26
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Faciès - Preferred
Concept UI M0028463
Preferred term Faciès



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