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mento-|ˈmɛntəʊ| used as combining form of L. mentum chin, in anatomical terms, as mento-bregmatic, mento-condylial, mento-gonial, mento-labial, etc. (see Syd. Soc. Lex. 1890); ˌmento-ˈhyoid, (a) adj. pertaining to the chin and the hyoid bone; (b) n. an occasional muscle in man passing from the body of the hyoid bone to the chin; so ˌmento-hyˈoidean a.; ˌmento-Meˈckelian a., in mento-Meckelian bone or mento-Meckelian element, a small bone formed by the ossification of portions of Meckel's cartilage and the lower labial cartilage; also as n., a small bone formed by the ossified end of Meckel's cartilage.
1856Mayne Expos. Lex., Mentolabialis..mentolabial. 1857Dunglison Med. Lex. 585 Mento-Labial Furrow. 1866Macalister in Proc. R. Irish Acad. IX. 451 A small muscular mento-hyoidean band..existed single in one subject. Ibid. 468 Mento-hyoid muscle. 1867― Ibid. X. 163 The platysma myoides, the mento-hyoid, Lucas' fibres in the axilla [etc.]. 1877Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. 172 The mento-Meckelian element of the mandible. 1883Huxley Pract. Biol. 220 At the..symphysial end it [Meckel's cartilage] is ossified to form the mento-Meckelian bone. 1892J. A. Thomson Outl. Zool. 449 The mento⁓meckelians seem to arise from two lower labial cartilages. 1925J. S. Kingsley Vertebr. Skeleton 71 The other cartilage bone is a mentomeckelian, best known in Anura, at the symphysis of the lower jaw. |