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Bell's palsy
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This person with Bell's palsy has:
  • Trouble raising his left eyebrow and wrinkling the left side of his forehead (shown in A)
  • Trouble closing his left eye and raising the left corner of his mouth (shown in B)
  • Drooping at the left corner of his mouth and trouble closing his left eye (shown in C)
Reproduced with permission from: Charles Goldberg, MD and The University of California, San Diego. Copyright © 2005 The Regents of the University of California. http://medicine.ucsd.edu/clinicalimg/neuro-central-CN7-palsy2.html.