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Definition of facies in English: faciesnoun ˈfeɪʃɪiːz 1Medicine
The facial expression of an individual that is typical of a particular disease or condition. 〔医〕（某种疾病患者特有的）面容 adenoidal facies are characterized by an open mouth gape Example sentencesExamples - The most common features are short stature, webbed neck, congenital heart disease and a characteristic facies.
- Other features include masked facies, decreased blinking, stooped posture, and salivation.
- She has the cachectic facies of a painting of a Victorian consumptive, Munch's Sick Child, perhaps.
- Other signs and symptoms include flushed facies, sore throat, cough, cutaneous hyperaesthesia, and taste aberrations.
2Geology
The character of a rock expressed by its formation, composition, and fossil content. 〔地质〕相 a sedimentary investigation of the area led to the postulation of five distinct facies Example sentencesExamples - The presence of clasts with flatiron shapes and rare striations in the conglomerate facies is consistent with a glacial setting.
- These wells were drilled into the central parts of the basin, where they intercepted mostly lacustrine facies.
- Well-preserved fossils occur in the zeolite facies Triassic rocks of Southland, New Zealand, where Coombs first described the phenomenon in the 1950s.
- Two facies of regionally metamorphosed rocks that may be of either original sedimentary or igneous derivation are characterized by epidote.
- The depositional facies are consistent with penecontemporaneous, explosive volcanism.
OriginEarly 17th century (denoting the face): from Latin, 'form, appearance, face'. Definition of facies in US English: faciesnoun 1Medicine
The appearance or facial expression of an individual that is typical of a particular disease or condition. 〔医〕（某种疾病患者特有的）面容 adenoidal facies are characterized by an open mouth gape Example sentencesExamples - Other signs and symptoms include flushed facies, sore throat, cough, cutaneous hyperaesthesia, and taste aberrations.
- The most common features are short stature, webbed neck, congenital heart disease and a characteristic facies.
- Other features include masked facies, decreased blinking, stooped posture, and salivation.
- She has the cachectic facies of a painting of a Victorian consumptive, Munch's Sick Child, perhaps.
2Geology
The character of a rock expressed by its formation, composition, and fossil content. 〔地质〕相 a sedimentary investigation of the area led to the postulation of five distinct facies Example sentencesExamples - The presence of clasts with flatiron shapes and rare striations in the conglomerate facies is consistent with a glacial setting.
- The depositional facies are consistent with penecontemporaneous, explosive volcanism.
- Two facies of regionally metamorphosed rocks that may be of either original sedimentary or igneous derivation are characterized by epidote.
- Well-preserved fossils occur in the zeolite facies Triassic rocks of Southland, New Zealand, where Coombs first described the phenomenon in the 1950s.
- These wells were drilled into the central parts of the basin, where they intercepted mostly lacustrine facies.
OriginEarly 17th century (denoting the face): from Latin, ‘form, appearance, face’. |