Facial

Definition: Facial

Facial

Adjective

1. Of or concerning the face; "a facial massage"; "facial hair"; "facial expression".

Noun

1. Cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles.

2. Care for the face that usually involves cleansing and massage and the application of cosmetic creams.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "facial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Etymology: Facial \Fa"cial\, adjective. [from Late Latin expression facialis, from the Latin expression facies face compare to the French expression facial.]. (references)

Health

Personal Care & Hotels

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Facial

Crosswords: Facial

Danish (facial), French (facial), Portuguese (facial), Romanian (facial), Spanish (facial).

I got a facial peel (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

All the dumb things in the world are done with that facial expression (Tot samyj Myunkhgauzen; writing credit: Grigori Gorin)

Look at the symptomstemperamental behavior, mood swings, facial hairUh oh, Dad, I think you have menopause (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Facial Expression (1902)

A Study in Facial Expressions (1898)

Facial Expressions by Loney Haskell (1897)

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References

• The 2001 Report on Facial Moisturizers: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Facial Moisturizers: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Boxed Facial Tissues in North America & the Caribbean (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Facial and Body Toning Systems (reference)

• The World Market for Toilet or Facial Tissue Paper Stock and Towel or Napkin Stock: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Children With Facial Difference: A Parents' Guide (reference)

• Facial Skin Resurfacing (Book with Video) (reference)

• In Your Face : What Facial Features Reveal About the People You Know and Love (reference)

• The Erotic Poems: The Amores, the Art of Love, Cures for Love, on Facial Treatment for Ladies (Penguin Classics) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Archives Of Facial Plastic Surgery (reference)

• Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics Of North America (reference)

• Journal Of Facial & Somato Prosthetics (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Facial Magic (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Consumer Goods

• Conair 3704 Warm/Cool Facial Sauna (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Thia patient with congenital syphilis is exhibiting rhagades, which are cracks or fissures in the skin around the mouth. Such a rare type of facial disfigurement, results from persistent infantile syphilitic rhinitis. Credit: CDC.

This nine day old facial rash is characteristic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and was caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, a species of bacteria that is spread to humans by ixodid (hard) ticks. Credit: CDC.

[Suture technique for facial wounds]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Progressive Unilateral Atrophy of the Face : Facial Hemiatrophy. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Evolution of facial features]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Woodbury's Facial Soap : A skin you love to touch] / Margaret Watkins, 1924. Credit: Library of Congress.

Helena Rubenstein, 655 5th Ave. Facial I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Caricature of Pope Paul VI, with text analyzing his character by his facial features. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Ethmocephaly is the least common facial anomaly. (references)

These nerves control eye movements and facial expression. (references)

Symptoms include headache, facial pain, or impaired vision. (references)

Economic History

Senegal

High on the list of products sought by Senegalese consumers are hair, facial and skin care products. (references)

Brazil

Best prospects for US exports include facial and body skincare, sun protection creams and lotions, shampoos and "men's products", including perfumes, good quality lotions and shaving preparations, ethnic products (dark skin cosmetics and toiletries), hair treatment and dental products. (references)

Human Rights

East Timor

During an April interview, dos Santos, who is 18-years-old appeared with facial injuries, claimed that she could not return because she had a baby. (references)

Women

Nigeria

The Penal Code permits husbands to use physical means to chastise their wives as long as it does not result in "grievous harm," which is defined as loss of sight, hearing, power of speech, facial disfigurement, or other life threatening injuries. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "facial": anterior facial vein ♦ Ayurvedic Facial ♦ common facial vein ♦ Cranial Facial Balancing ♦ Facial angle ♦ facial artery ♦ Facial Asymmetry ♦ Facial Bones ♦ Facial diplegia ♦ Facial Expression ♦ facial expressions ♦ facial gesture ♦ Facial Hemiatrophy ♦ facial index ♦ Facial Injuries ♦ facial muscle ♦ Facial Muscles ♦ Facial Nerve ♦ Facial Nerve Diseases ♦ Facial Nerve Injuries ♦ Facial Neuralgia ♦ Facial Pain ♦ facial paralysis ♦ facial power ♦ Facial Rejuvenation ♦ facial soap ♦ facial tissue ♦ facial vein ♦ posterior facial vein ♦ progressive facial hemiatrophy ♦ Serenity Facial. Additional references.

Ending with "facial": oral-facial.

Containing "facial": oral-facial-palatal.

Albanian

masazh fytyre, kozmetikë e fytyrës, i fytyrës. (various references)

Arabic 

‏وجهي, ‏تجميل الوجه, ‏تدليك للوجه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

на лицето, масаж на лицето, за лицето, лицев (front, obverse, right). (various references)

Chinese 

面部 (Facially). (various references)

Czech

oblièejový, lícní (obverse). (various references)

Danish

facial, ansigtsserviet (facial tissue). (various references)

Dutch

faciaal, gezichtsdoekje (facial tissue). (various references)

Finnish

verisuoniperäinen kasvokipu (facial vascular pain), kosteuspyyhe (facial blotter), kasvopyyhkeet (facial tissue), kasvoluiden tietokonetomografia (facial CT scan), kasvoluiden tietokonekerroskuvaus (facial CT scan), kasvojen syylä (facial wart). (various references)

French

facial. (various references)

German

im Gesicht. (various references)

Greek 

μασάζ (massage, rubdown), προσώπου, του προσώπου. (various references)

Hebrew 

של פנים, פרצופי, טפול פנים. (various references)

Hungarian

homlok (brow, brows, forehead, front), arcápolás, arc-. (various references)

Indonesian

guratan (facial scrinkle, outline, sketch). (various references)

Italian

facciale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

フェーリング反応 (a feint, face, fader, fail, fail-safe, failure, fair, fair catch, fair copy, fair play, fair sex, fairway, fairy, fairy tale, fairyland, fake, fare, fear, feather, feather plane, feathercut, Fehling's reaction, phase, phaser, phasing, phasor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

フェイシャル . (various references)

Korean 

얼굴. (various references)

Manx

aachummey eddin. (various references)

Norwegian

ansikts-. (various references)

Pig Latin

acialfay.(various references)

Portuguese

facial. (various references)

Romanian

facial, tratament facial, masaj facial. (various references)

Russian 

лицевой (obverse, right). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

facijalan, masaža lica. (various references)

Spanish

facial. (various references)

Swedish

ansikts-. (various references)

Thai

เกี่ยวกับใบหน้า, การบำรุงผิวหน้า. (various references)

Turkish

yüze ait, yüz bakımı, yüz (c, cast of features, countenance, dial, face, front, frontispiece, hecto-, hundred, kisser, mien, obverse, one hundred, Phiz, physiognomy, puss, Snoot, visage), cilt bakımı. (various references)

Ukrainian

косметичний (cosmetic), лицьовий (obverse), поверхневий (skin deep), догляд за обличчям. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự xoa bóp mặt. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "facial": facially, facials. (additional references)

Words ending with "facial": bifacial, craniofacial, interfacial, maxillofacial. (additional references)

Words containing "facial": bifacially. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Facial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Accval, facail, facal, faccia, Faccio, facel, Fachan, facian, facil, facill, facio, facula, fagioli, Faimalo, falcula, fanciably, Fania, farcial, fasal, fascial, Fasciola, Faycal, Fayiqah, Faysal, Fazila, Fiacaill, Fiaciall, fucia, fuckall, Fukaba. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: calif, facia.

-2 letters: alfa, alif, calf, fail, fila, flic, laic.

-3 letters: aal, ail, ala, fil, lac.

-4 letters: aa, ai, al, fa, if, la, li.

+1 letter: facials, fascial, faucial.

+2 letters: bifacial, califate, facially, farcical.

+3 letters: califates, factional, factorial, fallacies, fanatical, fatidical, financial.

+4 letters: artificial, bifacially, facilitate, factorials, factualism, factualist, factuality, fallacious, farcically, fascicular, fatalistic, fractional, magnifical, pacifiable, ultramafic.

+5 letters: acriflavine, affectional, artifactual, camouflagic, defalcating, defalcation, facilitated, facilitates, facilitator, factionally, factualisms, factualists, facultative, fanatically, fantastical, farcicality, fasciculate, financially, flagrancies, frantically, fratricidal, interfacial, malefaction, microfaunal, pacifically, parfocality, parfocalize, sacrificial, scalariform, trafficable.