Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated in the middle of the face.
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- adjective in the middle of the face
Etymologies
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mid- + facial
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Examples
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This may indicate that modern human midfacial and subnasal morphology is retention of a juvenile pattern that developed in Homo antecessor, which was not yet present in Homo ergaster and never developed in Homo heidelbergensis or Neandertals.
A New Species? 1997
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