RAMUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: rami   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("ramus" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Meronyms (parts of "ramus"):

condylion (the craniometric point at the tip of the mandibular condyle)

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