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Facies hippocratica

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Noun
  1. 1
    The pallid or shrunken face of someone about to die.

    "Your child comes into the world with the symptoms of death; the facies Hippocratica forms the character of its physiognomy, and the prognostic of its fate."

Etymology

Latin; so called because the effect was described by Hippocrates.

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