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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

cervicofacial en · ADJ

Etymology

From cervico- + facial.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to the neck and face.
    • Practically, any organ system of the human body can be affected; pulmonary form comprises 15% of all actinomycosis cases and it is primarily caused by aspiration of oropharyngeal or upper gastrointestinal materials, albeit it can sometimes occur after local spread of cervicofacial infection or hematogenous spread. 2015 June 4, Stamatis Katsenos et al., “Primary Bronchopulmonary Actinomycosis Masquerading as Lung Cancer: Apropos of Two Cases and Literature Review”, in Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, volume 2015, →DOI: