Editing Hippocratic facies

{{Short description|Changes in the face as a medical sign}}
[[File:Typhoid  facies.jpg|thumb|Typhoid facies]]
The '''Hippocratic facies''' ({{langx|la|'''facies Hippocratica'''|links=no}})<ref name="MW">{{cite web |title=Medical Definition of HIPPOCRATIC FACIES |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/Hippocratic%20facies |website=www.merriam-webster.com |language=en}}</ref> is the change produced in the [[face]] recognisable as a [[medical sign]] known as [[facies (medical)|facies]] and prognostic of death.<ref name=Rodman2022>{{cite journal |last1=Rodman |first1=Adam |last2=Breu |first2=Anthony C. |title=The Last Breath: Historical Controversies Surrounding Determination of Cardiopulmonary Death |journal=Chest |date=February 2022 |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=514–518 |doi=10.1016/j.chest.2021.08.006 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34400157/ |issn=1931-3543|url-access=subscription}}</ref> 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. (The term ''typhoid facies'' refers to the staring expression often seen in [[typhoid fever]]).

<blockquote>"[If the patient's facial] appearance may be described thus: the nose sharp, the eyes sunken, the temples fallen in, the ears cold and drawn in and their lobes distorted, the skin of the face hard, stretched and dry, and the colour of the face pale or dusky&nbsp;... and if there is no improvement within [a prescribed period of time], it must be realized that this sign portends death."<ref name="Chadwick 1978">{{cite book |author=Chadwick, J. & Mann, W.N.(trans.) |title=Hippocratic writings |publisher=Penguin |location=Harmondsworth, UK |year=1978 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/hippocraticwriti0000hipp/page/170 170&ndash;171] |isbn=0-14-044451-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/hippocraticwriti0000hipp/page/170 }}</ref></blockquote>

The Hippocratic facies is named after [[Hippocrates]], who first described it.

A related term is [[cachexia]], which is the bodily wasting syndrome often associated with death.

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