英语词汇“facies”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

facies

/ˈfeɪʃɪiːz

noun (plural same)

1 Medicine The facial expression of an individual that is typical of a particular disease or condition: adenoidal facies are characterized by an open mouth gape...

The most common features are short stature, webbed neck, congenital heart disease and a characteristic facies.
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.

2 Geology The character of a rock expressed by its formation, composition, and fossil content: a sedimentary investigation of the area led to the postulation of five distinct 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 presence of clasts with flatiron shapes and rare striations in the conglomerate facies is consistent with a glacial setting.

Origin

Early 17th century (denoting the face): from Latin, 'form, appearance, face'.

单词	facies
释义	facies /ˈfeɪʃɪiːz / noun (plural same) 1 Medicine The facial expression of an individual that is typical of a particular disease or condition: adenoidal facies are characterized by an open mouth gape... The most common features are short stature, webbed neck, congenital heart disease and a characteristic facies. 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. 2 Geology The character of a rock expressed by its formation, composition, and fossil content: a sedimentary investigation of the area led to the postulation of five distinct 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 presence of clasts with flatiron shapes and rare striations in the conglomerate facies is consistent with a glacial setting. Origin Early 17th century (denoting the face): from Latin, 'form, appearance, face'.
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