facial
IPA: fˈeɪʃʌɫ
noun
- (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.
adjective
- (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.
- 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.