MANDIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mandible mean? 

• MANDIBLE (noun)
  The noun MANDIBLE has 1 sense:

1. the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth

  Familiarity information: MANDIBLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANDIBLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

jawbone; jowl; lower jaw; lower jawbone; mandible; mandibula; mandibular bone; submaxilla

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 

The moveable lower part is called the mandible.

(Jaw Injuries and Disorders, NIH)

The joint between the head of the lower mandible and the temporal bone.

(Jaw Joint, NCI Thesaurus)

A quadrilateral muscle extending from the lateral pterygoid plate to the medial surface of the mandible that closes the jaw and aids in mastication.

(Internal Pterygoid Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgery to removeone half of the mandible.

(Hemimandibulectomy, NCI Thesaurus)

A two headed (inferior and superior) muscle attached to the mandible that opens the jaw and brings it forward.

(External Pterygoid Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)

A carcinoma usually arising from the maxilla and less often the mandible.

(Ghost Cell Odontogenic Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The defects include partially formed or absent ear, nose, lip, mandible, and/or soft palate.

(Goldenhar Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

An intraosseous odontogenic neoplasm that usually arises from the mandible.

(Keratocystic Odontogenic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of the molars located in the mandible.

(Lower Jaw Molar, NCI Thesaurus)

An area of necrotic bone in the mandible or maxilla.

(Osteonecrosis of Jaw, NCI Thesaurus)