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gnathion Anat.|ˈneɪθɪɒn|
[f. Gr. γνάθ-ος jaw + -ion2.]
In the cranium, the lowest point of the inferior border of the mandible in the mid-line; the menton.
1888Catal. Marsupialia Brit. Mus. p. viii, Basal length.—From the ‘basion’, or lower front edge of the foramen magnum, to the ‘gnathion’. 1920H. H. Wilder Lab. Man. Anthropometry i. 44 Gnathion (gn). The lowest median point on the lower border of the mandible. 1951N. & Q. Anthrop. (ed. 6) i. 12 The distance between the nasion and the gnathion, which is the lowest and most anterior point on the lower border of the lower jaw. 1968D. H. Enlow Human Face xii. 281/1 The subjective location of gonion and menton (or gnathion), another method of forming the mandibular plane, tends to be just that. |