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Descriptor English: Facial Bones
Descriptor Spanish: Huesos Faciales
Descriptor huesos faciales
Scope note: El esqueleto facial está constituido por los huesos situados entre la base del cráneo y la región mandibular. Mientras que algunos consideran que los huesos faciales comprenden a los huesos hioides (HUESO HIOIDES), palatino (PALADAR DURO), cigomático (MALAR), MANDÍBULA y MAXILAR, otros incluyen también los huesos lagrimal, nasal, la concha nasal inferior y el vómer pero excluyen al hueso hioides. (Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p113).
Descriptor Portuguese: Ossos Faciais
Descriptor French: Os de la face
Entry term(s): Massif facial
Tree number(s): A02.835.232.781.324
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005147
Scope note: The facial skeleton, consisting of bones situated between the cranial base and the mandibular region. While some consider the facial bones to comprise the hyoid (HYOID BONE), palatine (HARD PALATE), and zygomatic (ZYGOMA) bones, MANDIBLE, and MAXILLA, others include also the lacrimal and nasal bones, inferior nasal concha, and vomer but exclude the hyoid bone. (Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p113)
Annotation: consider specifics; do not confuse with FACE (locational & soft tissue) or its specifics; /abnorm: consider also CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; fractures: coord FACIAL BONES /inj (IM) + SKULL FRACTURES (IM); neopl: coord IM + SKULL NEOPLASMS; craniofacial dysmorphism: index under CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; craniofacial dysplasia or craniofacial fibrous dysplasia: index under FACIAL BONES (IM) + SKULL (IM) + FIBROUS DYSPLASIA, POLYOSTOTIC (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: AB malformations
AH anatomie et histologie
BS vascularisation
CH composition chimique
CY cytologie
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
DG imagerie diagnostique
EM embryologie
EN enzymologie
GD croissance et développement
IM immunologie
IN traumatismes
IR innervation
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PP physiopathologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
SU chirurgie
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie
DeCS ID: 5248
Unique ID: D005147
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/06/29
Os de la face - Preferred
Concept UI M0008111
Preferred term Os de la face
Entry term(s) Massif facial



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