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  • noun anatomy The middle portion of the face.

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mid- +‎ face

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Examples

  • The fossils exhibit both seemingly modern features, such as sunken cheekbones with a horizontal rather than vertical ridge where upper teeth attach and a projecting nose and midface, and more primitive ones, including prominent brow ridges and premolars with multiple roots.

    A New Species? 1997

  • Surgeon Angelica Kavouni, who performs this procedure in Harley Street says: "It's the invisible nip and tuck and is the perfect remedy for those looking for a little help, as it defines the jawline, lifts the midface and tightens the upper neck."

    Evening Standard - Home Leah Hardy 2011

  • It also causes malformations of the feet and hands and a sunken midface, which gave Mr. Wiese a severe underbite.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • "It is possible," he said, "but then again she might have just lost weight after pregnancy the old-fashioned way." blog post, he speculated that Roberts may have had surgery around her eyes and a "midface lift."

    The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Life 2010

  • "It is possible," he said, "but then again she might have just lost weight after pregnancy the old-fashioned way." blog post, he speculated that Roberts may have had surgery around her eyes and a "midface lift."

    The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Entertainment 2010

  • The skull belonged a male, weighing some 15 to 20 kilograms, with a "snout-like projection of the midface," and was found in a black-mangrove environment in what is now Saudi Arabia.

    Scientific American 2010

  • The supporting platform provided by the skeleton of the midface is different.

    PRWeb 2009

  • She lost her hands, nose, upper and lower lips, eyelids and the bony structures in her midface in the attack.

    dispatch.com: RSS 2009

  • Mainly the abscence of a chin, the extreme prognathic midface, the larger brows, and the much lower cranial vault.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The supporting platform provided by the skeleton of the midface is different.

    PRWeb 2009

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