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When a patient with peripheral facial paralysis attempts to close the eye, there is an upward movement of the eye and the eyelid on the paralysed side of the face remains open.
The phenomenon is thus named, thanks to the Scottish anatomist, surgeon, and physiologist Sir Charles Bell.
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