Definition of Trifacial

1. a. See Trigeminal.

Definition of Trifacial

1. Adjective. trigeminal ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trifacial

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Trifacial

1. See Trigeminal. Origin: Pref. Tri- + facial. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trifacial

triethylamine
triethylamines
triethylammonium
triethylene glycol
triethylenediamine
triethylenediamines
triethylenemelamine
triethylenephosphoramide
triethylenetetramine
triethylenetetramine dihydrochloride
triethylenethiophosphoramide
triethylgallium
triethyltin compounds
triexciton
triexcitons
trifacial (current term)
trifacial nerve
trifacial neuralgia
trifacials
trifactorial
trifallow
trifallowed
trifallowing
trifallows
trifarious
trifasciated
trifecta
trifectas
triff
triffer

Literary usage of Trifacial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Physiology of Man: Designed to Represent the Existing State of by Austin Flint (1873)
"A SINGLE nerve, the large root of the fifth pair, called the trifacial, or the trigeminal, gives general sensibility to the face and the head as far back as ..."

2. The Physiology of man v.4, 1873 by Austin Flint (1873)
"A SINGLE nerve, the large root of the fifth pair, called the trifacial, or the trigeminal, gives general sensibility to the face and the head as far back as ..."

3. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"CHAPTER V. DISEASES OF THE trifacial NERVE. Anatomical Considerations.—The fifth nerves represent the sensory portions of all the motor cranial nerves. ..."

4. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1917)
"OBSERVATIONS ON THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF trifacial NEURALGIA* EMIL H. ... trifacial neuralgia is not often confused with any other disease by those ..."

5. The Treatment of Diseases of the Nervous System: A Manual for Practitioners by Joseph Collins (1900)
"THE TREATMENT OF trifacial NEURALGIA. THE fifth nerve or some of its ... It has not always been recognized that trifacial neuralgia may be of as many forms, ..."

6. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1893)
"THE suffering produced by some forms of trifacial neuralgia are so great, the malady is so common, and generally so intractable, that any contribution to ..."

7. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"The trifacial nerve contains motor and sensory fibres, ... When the fifth or trifacial nerve is paralyzed in its motor fibres, the patient is unable to ..."

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