Definition of Facial angles. Meaning of Facial angles. Synonyms of Facial angles

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Definition of Facial angles

Facial angle
Facial 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.

Meaning of Facial angles from wikipedia

- Facial Angles refers to the content of two lectures on this subject by the Amsterdam professor of anatomy Petrus Camper on the 1st and 8 August in 1770...
- his theory of facial angle (prognathism). He determined that humans had facial angles between 70° and 80°, with African and Asian angles closer to 70°...
- muscles also cause wrinkles at right angles to the muscles’ action line. The facial muscles are supplied by the facial nerve (cranial nerve VII), with each...
- A facial recognition system is a technology potentially capable of matching a human face from a digital image or a video frame against a database of faces...
- sutures end relative to the genal angle (the edges where the side and rear margins of the cephalon converge). Absent – Facial sutures are lacking in the Olenellina...
- set of angles and distances, measurements can be related to one another and to normative values to determine variations in a patient's facial structure...
- The facial artery (external maxillary artery in older texts) is a branch of the external carotid artery that supplies structures of the superficial face...
- The facial lymph nodes comprise three groups: (a) infraorbital or maxillary, scattered over the infraorbital region from the groove between the nose and...
- clear and unambiguous: no.": 360  Drawing from Petrus Camper's theory of facial angle, Blumenbach and Cuvier classified races, through their skull collections...
- cistern. The cistern contains the (ipsilateral) trigeminal nerve (CN V), facial nerve (CN VII), and vestibulocochlear nerve (VIII), the anterior inferior...