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English Dictionary: facial by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
facial
adj
  1. of or concerning the face; "a facial massage"; "facial hair"; "facial expression"
  2. of or pertaining to the outside surface of an object
n
  1. cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles [syn: facial, facial nerve, nervus facialis, seventh cranial nerve]
  2. care for the face that usually involves cleansing and massage and the application of cosmetic creams
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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}.
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