Hippocratic facies

British  

/ ˌhɪpəʊˈkrætɪk /

noun

1. the sallow facial expression, with listless staring eyes, often regarded as denoting approaching death

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Hippocratic facies

We may note too that this sentence almost immediately precedes what is perhaps the most famous of all the Hippocratic sentences, the description of what has since been termed the Hippocratic facies.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone

The pain continues in paroxysms often so severe as to cause the peculiar Hippocratic facies, la face vultueuse of the French, and though sometimes ameliorated in character, it usually recurs with greater severity.

From Food Poisoning by Edwin Oakes Jordan

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