Full moon face
The full moon face (also moon face , lat. Facies lunata ) describes a rounded face shape with reddened, sometimes bluish-red puffy cheeks , "carp mouth", angled eyes and double chin. It is one of the key visual symptoms in internal medicine .
Possible medical background:
- Cushing's Syndrome
- Obesity (especially Fröhlich syndrome , Pickwick syndrome )
- Medicines (chronic use of glucocorticoids , estrogens , anabolic steroids, or appetite stimulants)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Facies lunata at Wissen.de ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mondgesicht In: Roche Lexicon Medicine , 5th Edition; Urban & Fischer 2003. ISBN 3-437-15180-0 online version
- ↑ Gunter Gruber, Andreas Hansch: 2. Endokrinologie / Diabetologie In: Kompaktatlas Blickdiagnosen in der internal medicine. 1st edition, Verlag Elsevier, Urban & Fischer 2007, ISBN 978-3-437-24000-3 , pp. 70ff
- ↑ Hans Vogl: (Voll-) Mondgesicht In: Differentialdiagnose der medical-clinical symptoms: Lexicon of clinical signs and findings , 3rd edition, p. 350; UTB 1994. ISBN 978-3-8252-8066-6 , limited preview in the Google book search
Web links
Wiktionary: Full moon face - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
