hip·po·crat·ic facies (h p  -kr t k)n. A pinched expression of the face, with sunken eyes, hollow cheeks and temples, and relaxed lips, observed in one dying after an exhausting illness. Also called hippocratic face. |
hippocratic facies,
a drawn, pinched, and pale appearance of the face, indicative of approaching death.
Hippocratic Facies
A physiognomy characteristic of advanced untreated preterminal peritonitis, which Hippocrates described as ‘...hollow eyes, collapsed temples; the ears, cold, contracted and their lobes turned out; the skin about the forehead being rough, distended and parched; the colour of the whole face being brown, black, livid or lead-coloured...’
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