Medical Dictionary
Hippocratic facies
noun
Medical Definition of HIPPOCRATIC FACIES
: the face as it appears near death and in some debilitating conditions marked by sunken eyes and temples, pinched nose, and tense hard skin—called also facies Hippocratica
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