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Loss of eyebrows is commonly seen from both atopic and seborrhoeic dermatitis due to continuous scratching/touching. Psoriasis on the eyelids can result in madarosis. Others include: frontal fibrosing alopecia , ulerythema ophryogenes , acne rosacea , telogen effluvium , follicular mucinosis , and cutaneous sarcoidosis .
Periorbital puffiness, also known as puffy eyes, or swelling around the eyes, is the appearance of swelling in the tissues around the eyes, called the orbits. It is almost exclusively caused by fluid buildup around the eyes, or periorbital edema. Minor puffiness usually detectable below the eyes only is often called eye bags.
Flushing is to become markedly red in the face and often other areas of the skin, from various physiological conditions. Flushing is generally distinguished from blushing, since blushing is psychosomatic, milder, generally restricted to the face, cheeks or ears, and generally assumed to reflect emotional stress, such as embarrassment, anger, or romantic stimulation.
Chemosis is the swelling (or edema) of the conjunctiva. The term derives from the Greek words cheme and -osis, cheme meaning cockleshell due to the swollen conjunctiva resembling it, and -osis meaning condition. [1] The swelling is due to the oozing of exudate from abnormally permeable capillaries. In general, chemosis is a nonspecific sign of ...
swelling Greek οἴδημα (oídēma), swelling lymphedema, lipedema-emesis: vomiting condition Greek ἕμεσις (hémesis) hematemesis-emia: blood condition (Am. Engl.) Greek αἷμα (haîma), "blood" anemia: encephal(o)-of or pertaining to the brain; see also cerebro-Greek ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos), the brain encephalogram: endo-
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An eyebrow is an area of short hairs above each eye that follows the shape of the lower margin of the brow ridges of some mammals. In humans , eyebrows serve two main functions: first, communication through facial expression , and second, prevention of sweat, water, and other debris from falling down into the eye socket.
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