Facies (medical)

Types

• Hippocratic face
• Moon face – Cushing's syndrome
• Elfin facies – Williams syndrome
• Potter facies – oligohydramnios
• Mask like facies – parkinsonism
• Leonine facies – lepromatous leprosy or craniometaphyseal dysplasia
• Mitral facies – mitral stenosis
• Amiodarone facies
• Acromegalic facies – acromegaly
• Flat facies – Down syndrome
• Marfanoid facies – Marfan's syndrome
• Snarling facies – myasthenia gravis
• Myotonic facies – myotonic dystrophy
• Torpid facies – myxoedema
• Mouse facies – chronic kidney failure
• Plethoric facies – Cushing's syndrome and polycythemia vera
• Bird facies – Pierre Robin sequence
• Ashen grey facies – myocardial infarction
• Gargoyle facies – Hurler's syndrome
• Monkey facies – marasmus
• Hatchet facies – myotonia atrophica
• Gorilla-like face – acromegaly
• Bovine facies – craniofacial dysostosis or crouzon syndrome
• Marshall halls facies – hydrocephalus
• Frog face – intranasal disease
• Coarse facies – many inborn errors of metabolism
• Adenoid facies – developmental facial traits caused by adenoid hypertrophy, nasal airway obstruction and mouthbreathing; really a form of long face syndrome.
• Lion-like facies – involvement of craniofacial bones in Paget disease of Bone
• Chipmunk facies – beta thalassemia

  Other disorders associated with syndromic facies

• Pitt–Hopkins syndrome
• Mowat–Wilson syndrome