In jawed vertebrates, the mandible (from the Latin mandibula, 'for chewing'), lower jaw, or jawbone is a bone that makes up the lower – and typically more...
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The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 is a 2016 novel by American author Lionel Shriver. It was first published by HarperCollins in the United Kingdom in...
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Look up mandible in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The mandible is the lower jawbone of a vertebrate animal. Mandible may also refer to: Mandible (arthropod...
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Temporomandibular joint (redirect from Articular condyle of mandible)
mandible below; it is from these bones that its name is derived. The joints are unique in their bilateral function, being connected via the mandible....
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Mandibles (French: Mandibules) is a 2020 French-Belgian comedy film written and directed by Quentin Dupieux. It stars David Marsais, Grégoire Ludig, Adèle...
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The angle of the mandible (a.k.a. gonial angle, Masseteric Tuberosity, and Masseteric Insertion) is located at the posterior border at the junction of...
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The lingula of the mandible is a prominent bony ridge on the medial side of the mandible. It is next to the mandibular foramen. It gives attachment to...
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The Peninj Mandible(Peninj 1), also called Natron mandible, is the fossilized lower jaw and teeth of an australopithecine specimen, likely that of Paranthropus...
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Mandibular fracture (redirect from Mandible fracture)
are tomograms where the mandible is in the focal trough and show a flat image of the mandible. Because the curve of the mandible appears in a 2-dimensional...
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Condyloid process (redirect from Condyle of mandible)
mammalian species' mandibles that ends in a condyle, the mandibular condyle. It is thicker than the coronoid process of the mandible and consists of two...
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Insect mandibles are a pair of appendages near the insect's mouth, and the most anterior of the three pairs of oral appendages (the labrum is more anterior...
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Maxilla (redirect from Upper mandible)
This is similar to the mandible (lower jaw), which is also a fusion of two mandibular bones at the mandibular symphysis. The mandible is the movable part...
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to be inserted into the angle of the mandible and inferior half of the lateral surface of the ramus of the mandible. The deep head is much smaller, and...
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The Xiahe mandible ([ɕjâxɤ̌], sh'ya-khuh) is a hominin fossil jaw (mandible) discovered in Baishiya Karst Cave, located on the northeastern edge of the...
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Cephalopod beak (redirect from Cephalopod mandibles)
by the muscular head appendages. The dorsal (upper) mandible fits into the ventral (lower) mandible and together they function in a scissor-like fashion...
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Alveolar process (redirect from Alveolar part of mandible)
containing the tooth sockets on the jaw bones (in humans, the maxilla and the mandible). The alveolar process is covered by gums within the mouth, terminating...
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In human anatomy, the mandible's coronoid process (from Greek korōnē 'hooked') is a thin, triangular eminence, which is flattened from side to side and...
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Dicondylia have a mandible attached with two hinges to the head capsule (dicondyl), in contrast to a hypothetical ancestral mandible with a single ball...
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Edward Francis Mandible (11 May 1885 – 3 April 1936) was an Australia national representative rugby union fly-half and one of the pioneers who broke away...
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Stafne defect (redirect from Salivary gland inclusions in the mandible)
defect, latent bone cyst, or static bone cyst) is a depression of the mandible, most commonly located on the lingual surface (the side nearest the tongue)...
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During World War II, Operation Mandibles was a planned 1940/1941 British amphibious assault on Rhodes, Leros and the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean...
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The four classical muscles of mastication elevate the mandible (closing the jaw) and move it forward/backward and laterally, facilitating biting and chewing...
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The mandible (from Latin: mandibula or mandĭbŭ-lum, a jaw) of an arthropod is a pair of mouthparts used either for biting or cutting and holding food....
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gingiva (pl.: gingivae) consist of the mucosal tissue that lies over the mandible and maxilla inside the mouth. Gum health and disease can have an effect...
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CN V3). It depresses and protrudes the mandible. When each muscle works independently, they can move the mandible side to side. The lateral pterygoid muscle...
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Micrognathism (redirect from Micrognathic mandible)
understand it better and find the most effective treatment procedure. Human mandible Macrognathism Retrognathism Martínez-Frías, ML; Martín, M; Pardo, M; Torres...
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who falls in love with Princess Bala (Stone). When the arrogant General Mandible (Hackman) attempts to seize control of the ant colony, Z must combine his...
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appearance of people with the disorder is caused by a loss of bone in the mandible which the body replaces with excessive amounts of fibrous tissue. In most...
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is sometimes called the membranous viscerocranium, which comprises the mandible and dermatocranial elements that are not part of the braincase. In the...
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Mandible Cirque is a cirque indenting the coast of Daniell Peninsula 8 km (5.0 mi) west-south-west of Cape Phillips, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was...
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