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My Faces

Hippocratic face
impending death long illness excessive evacuations excessive hunger,

facies Hippocratica

Moon face
face swells up into a rounded shape a/w Cushing's syndrome Cushingoid facies steroid treatment steroid facies

moon facies

Elfin face
Elfin facies-similarities to elves (offensive) low-set ears. a/w Williams syndrome or leprechaunism

Elfin facies

Wiliam syndrome- elfin facies

Leonine face
Resembles a lion Lepromatous leprosy Paget's disease of bone

Leonine facies

mitral face
dusky mauve flush (peripheral cyanosis) of the cheeks low cardiac output. mitral stenosis complicated by pulmonary hypertension.

mitral facies

Potter face
Potter sequence / Potter's syndrome/Oligohydramnios sequence Oligohydramnios bilateral renal agenesis(BRA) atresia of the ureter or urethra causing obstruction of the urinary tract polycystic or multicystic kidney diseases renal hypoplasia amniotic rupture uteroplacental insufficiency from maternal hypertension or toxemia clubbed feet, pulmonary hypoplasia and cranial anomalies

Potter facies

A U.S. Marine exhibits the thousand-yard stare after two days of constant fighting in the Battle of Eniwetok.

Steve McCurry's "Afghan Girl Sharbat_Gula

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