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The Hippocratic facies (Latin: facies Hippocratica) [1] is the change produced in the face recognisable as a medical sign known as facies and prognostic of death. It may also be seen as due to long illness, excessive defecation, or excessive hunger, when it can be differentiated from the sign of impending death.
In medical contexts, a facies is a distinctive facial expression or appearance associated with a specific medical condition. [1] The term comes from Latin for "face". [ 2 ] As a fifth declension noun, [ 3 ] facies can be both singular and plural.
Trigeminal deafferentation pain (TDP), also termed anesthesia dolorosa, or colloquially as phantom face pain, is from unintentional damage to a trigeminal nerve following attempts to fix a nerve problem surgically. This pain is usually constant with a burning sensation and numbness.
Use of phrases like, "I need a grippy sock vacation" and "I'm one breakdown away from a grippy sock vacation" — inspired by the high-traction socks that are doled out in hospitals of all kinds ...
“Grippy sock vacation” refers to a stay in a psychiatric hospital, where patients are often given grippy socks. Williams didn’t actually want to stay at a psychiatric hospital, but her ...
Eponymous medical signs are those that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous patient. This list includes other eponymous entities of diagnostic significance; i.e. tests, reflexes, etc.
Hutchinson's mask is a patient's sensation that the face is covered with a mask or a gauzy network like cobwebs. This medical sign is associated with tabes dorsalis [1] affecting the trigeminal nerve (fifth cranial nerve CN V). It is named in honour of the English physician Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828–1913). [2]
face: Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon), face, visage, mask prosopagnosia: prot-denotes something as 'first' or 'most important' Greek πρωτος (prōtos), first; principal, most important protoneuron: pseud-denotes something false or fake Greek ψεύδω (pseúdō), to lie or deceive pseudoephedrine: psor-Itching