Coarse facial features or "'coarse facies"' describes a constellation of facial features that are present in many inborn errors of metabolism.
Features include:
- large, bulging head
- prominent scalp veins
- "saddle-like, flat bridged nose with broad, fleshy tip"
- large lips and tongue
- small, widely spaced and/or malformed teeth
- hypertrophic alveolar ridges and/or gums
Heads tend to be longer than normal from front to back, with a bulging forehead. This is because of the earlier than normal or premature fusion of skull bones in an affected individual.
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““... But a coarse old man am I,
I choose the second-best,
I forget it all awhile
Upon a woman’s breast.”
Day-break and a candle end.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“You must call up every strength you own
And you can rip off the whole facial mask.”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)