Mandible Synonyms

măndə-bəl
The jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. jawbone
  2. lower-jaw
  3. jaw
  4. mouth
  5. beak
  6. mandibula
  7. mandibular bone
  8. submaxilla
  9. lower jawbone
  10. jowl

Words Related to Mandible

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Mandible Sentence Examples

  • The mandible is composed of several bones as in reptiles.

  • The operculum of the normal zooecium has become the mandible, while the occlusor muscles have become enormous.

  • They include the mandible of a mastodon and a portion of a vertebra of a large fish, both found in the Lower Madison Valley; the skull and other parts of a dog (Mesocyon drummondanus), found near Drummond, Granite county; the skull of a Poatrephes paludicola, found near New Chicago,.

  • Hinds believe that the paired piercers are the inner lobes of the maxillae, and the unpaired piercer the left mandible, the right mandible being absent.

  • Dentary movably attached to the tip of the articular bone of the mandible.

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