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MANDIBLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
Synonyms:
jawbone; jowl; lower jaw; lower jawbone; mandible; mandibula; mandibular bone; submaxilla
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mandible" is a kind of...):
articulator (a movable speech organ)
jaw (the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth)
Meronyms (parts of "mandible"):
gnathion (the most inferior point of the mandible in the midline)
gonion (the craniometric point on either side at the apex of the lower jaw)
mandibular notch (small indentation in the middle of the lower jawbone)
pogonion (the craniometric point that is the most forward-projecting point on the anterior surface of the chin)
symphysion (the most forward point of the alveolar process of the mandible)
condylar process; condyloid process; mandibular condyle (the condyle of the ramus of the mandible that articulates with the skull)
coronoid process of the mandible (the coronoid process that provides an attachment for the temporal muscle)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mandible"):
lantern jaw (a long thin lower jaw)
Derivation:
mandibular (relating to the lower jaw)
Context examples:
A disorder characterized by a necrotic process occurring in the bone of the mandible.
(Osteonecrosis of Jaw, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
Surgery to remove part of the mandible.
(Partial Mandibulectomy, NCI Thesaurus)
Characterized by minimal protrusion of the mandible or minimal prognathism.
(Orthognathous, NCI Thesaurus)
An intraosseous odontogenic neoplasm with good prognosis, arising from the mandible and less frequently from the maxilla.
(Odontogenic Myxofibroma, NCI Thesaurus)
It occurs in the mandible and maxilla.
(Odontoameloblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare, benign, intraosseous neoplasm arising from tooth-forming tissues in the mandible and maxilla.
(Odontogenic Fibroma, NCI Thesaurus)
A benign intraosseous neoplasm arising from tooth-forming tissues in the mandible and maxilla, characterized by the presence of islands of odontogenic epithelium.
(Odontogenic Fibroma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Having teeth in neither the mandible nor the maxilla.
(Edentulous, NCI Thesaurus)
A fan shaped muscle running from the underside of the tongue to the mandible which depresses and protrudes the tongue.
(Genioglossus, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare, aggressive odontogenic malignant tumor that arises usually from the mandible and less frequently from the maxilla.
(Ameloblastic Carcinoma-Primary Type, NCI Thesaurus)
