Facial vs Maxillofacial - What's the difference?
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A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
(film) A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
* 2004 , Simon Popple, ?Joe Kember, Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory (page 92)
(slang, in some contact sports) A which involves one player hitting another in the face.
(vulgar, slang) A sex act of male ejaculation onto another person's face.
Of or relating to the jaw and face.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 3, author=Jane E. Brody, title=Best Treatment for TMJ May Be Nothing, work=New York Times
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Facial is a related term of maxillofacial.
As adjectives the difference between facial and maxillofacial
is that facial is of or affecting the face while maxillofacial is of or relating to the jaw and face.As a noun facial
is a personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.facial
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*Noun
(facial) (en noun)- But in facials , moving picture technology also enabled an exaggeration of this performance tradition, bringing a new emphasis to the details
- He gave his wife a creamy facial.
Derived terms
* facial cream * facial expression * facial feature * facial hair * facial nerve * facial profiling ----maxillofacial
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