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Hippocratic face
| the change produced in the countenance by death, or long sickness, excessive evacuations, excessive hunger, and the like. The nose is pinched, the eyes are sunk, the temples hollow, the ears cold and retracted, the skin of the forehead tense and dry, the complexion livid, the lips pendent, relaxed, and cold; - so called, as having been described by Hippocrates.- Dunglison. |
See also: Hippocratic Hippocratic face
hip·po·crat·ic fa·ci·es , facies hippocraticaa pinched expression of the face, with sunken eyes, concavity of cheeks and temples, relaxed lips, and leaden complexion; observed in one close to death after severe and prolonged illness. Synonym(s): hippocratic faceA physiognomy characteristic of advanced untreated preterminal peritonitis, which Hippocrates described as ‘...hollow eyes, collapsed temples; the ears, cold, contracted and their lobes turned out; the skin about the forehead being rough, distended and parched; the colour of the whole face being brown, black, livid or lead-coloured...’Hippocratic face A physiognomy characteristic of advanced, untreated, preterminal peritonitis, who Hippocrates described as having '…hollow eyes, collapsed temples; the ears, cold, contracted and their lobes turned out; the skin about the forehead being rough, distended and parched; the color of the whole face being brown, black, livid or lead-colored…'; these facial features are also described in celiac sprue. Cf Triangular face. hip·po·crat·ic fa·ci·es (hip'ō-krat'ik fash'ē-ēz) A pinched expression of the face, with sunken eyes, concavity of cheeks and temples, relaxed lips, and leaden complexion; observed in one close to death after severe and prolonged illness.
Synonym(s): hippocratic face. |