Facies vs Facial - What's the difference?
facies | facial |
(plurale tantum) Appearance.
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(plurale tantum, medicine) Facial features, like an expression or complexion, typical for patients having certain diseases or conditions (e.g. costive facies ).
(geology) A body of rock with specified characteristics reflecting the way it was formed.
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.
As a verb facies
is .As an adjective facial is
of or affecting the face.As a noun facial is
a personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.facies
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Noun
(-)- The Chilean Amphijubula'' Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small ''Frullania'' and agrees with ''Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.
Derived terms
* biofacies * lithofacies * masked facies ----facial
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Coordinate terms
*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.