FACIAL

facial. Facial, a. pertaining to a band and a pair of nerves

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Fa″cial (?), a. [[LL. facialis, fr. L. facies face : cf. F. facial.]] Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve. — Fa″cial‐ly, adv. Facial angle (Anat.), the angle, in a skull, included between a straight line (ab, in the illustrations), from the most prominent part of the forehead to the front efge of the upper jaw bone, and another (cd) from this point to the center of the external auditory opening. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.