mandibular bone

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Noun

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mandibular bone - the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouthjawbone, jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, submaxillagnathion - the most inferior point of the mandible in the midlinegonion - the craniometric point on either side at the apex of the lower jawmandibular notch - small indentation in the middle of the lower jawbonepogonion - the craniometric point that is the most forward-projecting point on the anterior surface of the chinsymphysion - the most forward point of the alveolar process of the mandiblearticulator - a movable speech organcondylar process, condyloid process, mandibular condyle - the condyle of the ramus of the mandible that articulates with the skullcoronoid process of the mandible - the coronoid process that provides an attachment for the temporal musclejaw - the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teethlantern jaw - a long thin lower jaw