Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FA'CIAL, a. [L. facies, face.]

Pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein or nerve. Facial angle, in anatomy, is the angle contained by a line drawn horizontally from the middle of the external entrance of the ear to the edge of the nostrils, and another from this latter point to the superciliary ridge of the frontal bone, serving to measure the elevation of the forehead. Ed. Encyc.