midfacen.adj.
/ˌmɪdˈfeɪs/, U.S. /ˈmɪdˈfeɪs/ Chiefly Physical Anthropology and Medicine.
A. n.
The middle part of the face; (Medicine) the part of the face including the nose and glabella. Also in figurative context.
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c1650 (c1400) Julian of Norwich Revelations Divine Love: Longer Version (Sloane 2499) (1996) 14 I saw how halfe the face, begyning at the ere, overrede with drie blode til it beclosid to the mid face.
1873 G. W. Pine Beyond West ii. 27 But his great undertaking shall be finally accomplished because written on mid-face of heaven, where all the world might see it.
1934 E. Huber Evol. Facial Musculature iv. 101 This is particularly striking in the musculature of the mid-face.
1966 Cleft Palate Jrnl. 3 392 (title) Congenital midline defects of the midface.
1980 Science 18 July 354/1 The facial characteristics in FAS..include..small chin, and flat midface.
1998 New Jersey Monthly Jan. 95/1 We discussed lipo-transfer, taking fat from one area of her body and injecting it in her mid-face.
B. adj.
Situated in the middle part of the face; of or relating to this part; = midfacial adj.
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1896 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 25 120 (table) Mid-face index... Orbital index... Nasal index.
1934 E. Huber Evol. Facial Musculature iv. 104 There were noticed also more ‘gracile types’, with..greater differentiation of the musculature of the mid-face region.
1997 Dentistry Today Sept. 54/1 Midface collapse is dentistry's most insidious disease.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.c1650