"Facial Bones" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The facial skeleton, consisting of bones situated between the cranial base and the mandibular region. While some consider the facial bones to comprise the hyoid (HYOID BONE), palatine (HARD PALATE), and zygomatic (ZYGOMA) bones, MANDIBLE, and MAXILLA, others include also the lacrimal and nasal bones, inferior nasal concha, and vomer but exclude the hyoid bone. (Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992, p113)
| Descriptor ID |
D005147
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.835.232.781.324
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| Concept/Terms |
Facial Bones- Facial Bones
- Bone, Facial
- Bones, Facial
- Facial Bone
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Facial Bones" by people in Profiles.
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Vukelic A, Cohen JA, Sullivan AP, Perry GH. Extending Genome-Wide Association Study Results to Test Classic Anthropological Hypotheses: Human Third Molar Agenesis and the "Probable Mutation Effect". Hum Biol. 2017 04; 89(2):157-169.
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Fong KS, Adachi DA, Chang SB, Lozanoff S. Midline craniofacial malformations with a lipomatous cephalocele are associated with insufficient closure of the neural tube in the tuft mouse. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2014 Aug; 100(8):598-607.
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Willmore KE, Zelditch ML, Young N, Ah-Seng A, Lozanoff S, Hallgrímsson B. Canalization and developmental stability in the Brachyrrhine mouse. J Anat. 2006 Mar; 208(3):361-72.
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Lozanoff S, Doll S, Hallgrimsson B, Neufeld E. Prenatal growth of the interorbital septum in Macaca mulatta. Ann Anat. 2004 Dec; 186(5-6):435-42.
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McQuirter JL, Rothenberg SJ, Dinkins GA, Norris K, Kondrashov V, Manalo M, Todd AC. Elevated blood lead resulting from maxillofacial gunshot injuries with lead ingestion. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2003 May; 61(5):593-603.
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Perez E, Sullivan KE. Chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge and velocardiofacial syndromes). Curr Opin Pediatr. 2002 Dec; 14(6):678-83.