facial

IPA: fˈeɪʃʌɫ

(medicine) A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
(film) A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
(slang, sports) (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another in the face.
(slang, pornography, sex) A sex act of male ejaculation onto another person's face.

(relational) Of or affecting the face.
(medicine, relational) Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
(transferred sense, law) (of a law or regulation validity) On its face; as it appears (as opposed to on a more probing analysis, as it is applied, etc.).

Examples of "facial" in Sentences

The spasms usually spare the facial muscles.
The facial disc is pale and the iris is yellow.
The facial muscles are strongly affected by anger.
Their facial expressions depict gleeful malevolence.
I could see the facial expression of the competitors.
The facial nerve innervates the muscles of facial expression.
These are just examples of what we called facial deformities.
The bare facial skin is black, becoming ruddy behind the yellow eye.
It contains the sensory and parasympathetic fibers of the facial nerve.
Facial palsy is typified by inability to control movement in the facial muscles.
As an adult, its pink, naked facial skin and muzzle are framed by a long mane of blonde hairs flecked with brown.
She was always getting what she called a facial, from which process she would emerge looking pinker and creamier than ever.
Fancies herself to be an up-and-coming performance artist who specializes in facial gesticulations to accompany the sounds of flushing toilets and car alarms.
What he lacks in facial-hair stylishness, though, Mr. Bumgarner made up for Sunday night with one of the most dominant pitching performances by a rookie in World Series history.
The group likes to pull stunts decrying what it calls facial hair discrimination, such as saving the job of a Ruby Tuesday's employee who was threatened with being fired for violating the company's no facial hair policy.