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The face is the front of the head in humans and many other animals that features most of the sense organs including the eyes, nose and mouth. Many animals may express emotions through their face. Sense organs in the faces of different animals are varied such as the snout, and the proboscis. Many animals are flat-faced (brachycephalic) such as the pug dog.

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The face is the front part of the head in humans and many animals, containing most of the sense organs like the eyes, nose, and mouth. Faces are important because they allow animals to sense their surroundings and express emotions, though the specific features of faces vary widely across different animal species.

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Key facts

Anatomy.Name: Face
Anatomy.Latin: facies, facia or fave
Anatomy.Image: File:Human faces.jpg
Anatomy.Caption: Face of a woman (left) and face of a man (right)
Anatomy.Image2: Sobo 1909 260.png
Anatomy.Caption2: Ventrolateral aspect of the human face with skin removed, showing muscles of the face

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Research

499,508 papers

Face recognition.ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology · 1992Gross CG, Sergent JDOI: 10.1016/0959-4388(92)90004-5
Are We Face Experts?ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences · 2018Young AW, Burton AMDOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.11.007
Quantifying the face inversion effect in nonhuman primates: a phylogenetic meta-analysis.Animal cognition · 2020Griffin JWDOI: 10.1007/s10071-019-01340-8
The Face – A Musculoskeletal Perspective. A literature review.ReviewSwiss dental journal · 2018von Arx T, Nakashima MJ, Lozanoff SDOI: 10.61872/sdj-2018-09-442
Evidence-Based Medicine: Face Lift.ReviewPlastic and reconstructive surgery · 2017Derby BM, Codner MADOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000002851
The "parts and wholes" of face recognition: A review of the literature.ReviewQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2016Tanaka JW, Simonyi DDOI: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1146780
Surgical Anatomy of the Upper Face and Forehead.ReviewFacial plastic surgery : FPS · 2018Garritano FG, Quatela VCDOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1637727
Alterations in looking at face-pareidolia images in autism.Scientific reports · 2025Galli J, Vezzoli M, Loi E et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-98461-7

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Wikidata facts

Has part: cheek
Official website: github.com/koubaa-hmc/peroman
Image: MonaLisa sfumato.jpeg

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topic's main category: Category:Face
Commons gallery: Face
different from: snout
Commons category: Faces
NCI Thesaurus ID: C13071
catalog code: peroman

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Article · 中文

臉（「臉」通「面」、臉又稱臉孔、臉龐、顏臉）是人類和動物的多種感覺器官的集合。臉通常位於頭部的正面，而且通常只有一個。臉的範圍約為額至頷。包括額、眉、睫毛、眼、鼻、耳、口、唇、皮肤、臉頰、人中、齒、頷等器官或部分頭髮。臉具有表情表達、外觀展現、提供他人辨識...等不同的功能。也有許多不同的感覺器官，具有嗅覺、味覺、聽覺、視覺。其中眼、耳、口、鼻、喉称为五官，主要就是指顏面器官。在中医学裡，脸还反映出人的健康状况。

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