hemifacial
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃəl
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hemifacial (not comparable)
- (anatomy) Relating to, or affecting, one half of the face.
- 2015 June 3, Tsuyoshi Shimo et al., “Installing an original sleeve for rod unaccessible pain from a distraction device in a hemifacial microsomia patient”, in International Journal of Surgery Case Reports[1], volume 12, :
- Distraction osteogenesis of the mandible is widely used for improving the morphology of the facial skeleton in patients with hemifacial microsomia.