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Occasionally rorqual skulls have been discovered in which the long lower jaws have been stuck wedged inside various of the skull openings and with their tips protruding like tusks.
From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
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The most complete fossil was that of an adult male skull lacking a lower jaw found embedded in ancient cemented sands.
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The lower jaw of this form may have been edentulous and supported a gular sac, like that of a giant pelican or baleen whale.
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There, too, ranged species beyond species, are the extinct elephants; and there the ponderous skull of the dinotherium, with the bent tusks in its lower jaw, that give to it the appearance of a great pickaxe, and that must have dug deeply of old amid the liliaceous roots and bulbs of the Tertiary lakes and rivers.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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When cancer robbed him of his lower jaw, it didn't stop his prolific output.
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The first, or most anterior pre-molar of the lower jaw has one predominant cusp or cone; the second, like both in the upper jaw, is "bicuspid," or bi-tuberculate, as in man.
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Face Mask What It ' s For: A severe anterior crossbite, or underbite with the lower jaw outgrowing the upper jaw
The 8-Year-Old With a Perfect Smile
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Under the lower jaw is a little horseshoe shaped bone called the hyoid bone, because it is shaped like the Greek letter upsilon (Υ).
A Practical Physiology
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During the 1970s and 80s emphasis in basal whale research began to shift from Africa to Asia, at first because Sahni & Mishra (1972) described primitive whale remains discovered in India, and later as West (1980) figured and identified lower jaw specimens from Pakistan.
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The lower jaw is movable.
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They have large, forward-set, movable eyes and an upward slanting mouth with a long protruding lower jaw that can be thrust out.
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Sea, have huge teeth in their lower jaws, and in the upper only holes into which those teeth fit; others like the bottle-nose, only two teeth or so in the lower jaw; and others, like the narwhal, two straight tusks in the upper jaw, only one of which grows, and is what you call a narwhal's horn.
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Face Mask What It ' s For: A severe anterior crossbite, or underbite with the lower jaw outgrowing the upper jaw
The 8-Year-Old With a Perfect Smile
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The muscles on either side of her jaw were nearly the size of walnuts from the bruxing and clenching she did even while awake, and she carried her lower jaw slightly forward, which made the tendons of her neck stand out even more.
LIGHT FINGERS
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A German man who lost his lower jaw nearly 10 years ago to a malignant tumor regained the ability to eat more than soup this year when he was given an engineered jawbone.
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A mandibular condyle is the knobbed ending of the lower jaw; it joins the lower jaw to the temporal bone of the skull on both sides of the head at the temporomandibular joint.
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The procedure involved the extraction of the lower jaw and its substitution by a bone transplant from the fibula of the patient.
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The lower jaw of the haddock is slightly shorter than the upper jaw and the fish has a small single barbel.
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The mandibular arch in the developing fish is abruptly angled, as in the embryo of Tetrapoda; the upper prong of it ossifies into the palatine and pterygoid; at the angle is formed the quadrate (jugal, Cuvier), and to the quadrate is articulated the lower jaw, which ossifies round the lower prong or Meckel's cartilage.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Instead of a lower jaw a foot long, as in an elephant or in the common kind of mastodon -- this long-jawed kind had a lower jaw 5 feet or 6 feet long!
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Moving back to the morphology of the rorqual lower jaw, a tall, well-developed coronoid process – way larger than that of any other mysticete – projects from each jaw bone and forms the attachment site for a tendinous part of the temporalis muscle, termed the frontomandibular stay.
From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
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Other distinguishing characteristics of this group include a double blowhole, a symmetrical skull, right and left halves of the the lower jaw unfused, and a single osseus sternum.
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He has eyes like those of a pig and teeth large and tusky, in proportion to the size of his body; but unlike all other beasts he grows no tongue, neither does he move his lower jaw, but brings the upper jaw towards the lower, being in this too unlike all other beasts.
The History of Herodotus
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The horse softens food before swallowing by chewing the food between his molars with a sideways grinding action of the lower jaw.
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As the fish lunges forward to bite, a noodler tries to get both hands into the fish's mouth and grab the bone in the lower jaw shaped like a suitcase handle.
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Both the quadrate and the symplectic articulate with the articular of the lower jaw.
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Peter Brown, a paleontologist at the University of New England in Australia, said that his examination of the premolars and lower jaws of the specimens made it almost immediately “very, very clear that this was a hominid in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
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Unlike the mandibular advancement devices, it is not intended to bring the lower jaw forward.
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The upper and the lower jaws were certainly covered with horny beaks in life, like the beak in turtles and, it can be assumed, in the Triassic rhynchosaurs.
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Reproductively active males develop rows of nuptial tubercles on the front of the head and lower jaw, a thick, spongy dorsal pad anterior of the dorsal fin for cleaning eggs, and dark body coloration broken by two golden vertical bands.
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There are pigmy giraffes, large giraffes with moose-like antlers and elephant-like creatures with downward-curving tusks in the lower jaw.
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Full dentures are needed when there are no teeth left in the upper or lower jaw.
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This may be symptomatic of some inflammatory condition in the vicinity, such as a pyogenic affection of the lower jaw -- for example, that associated with a carious root or an unerupted wisdom tooth, or with parotitis or tonsillitis.
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Afradapis, such as the loss of the second premolar and the fusion of the two halves of the lower jaw (called the mandibular symphysis), are not seen in closest relatives of the earliest anthropoids like the recently-discovered genus Biretia.
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In large carnivores with very long canines, such as the gorgonopsians and some therocephalians, a wide gape was necessary, and so a secure attachment of the lower jaw is required.
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When cancer robbed him of his lower jaw, it didn't stop his prolific output.
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But the piranha is a short, deep-bodied fish, with a blunt face and a heavily undershot or projecting lower jaw which gapes widely.
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The mandible, or lower jaw, rocks slowly back and forth to aid and synchronize with this process.
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Beaked whales, distinguished by the strange, teeth-like protuberances from their lower jaws, have been around virtually unchanged for 30 million years, but are still the least studied large mammal in the world.
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The canines, which are present in both upper and lower jaws, are medium-sized and hooked.
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Males of all species have 1 or 2 large functional teeth on the lower jaw; smaller, apparently non-functional teeth are sometimes seen on upper and lower jaws of several species.
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Six of these measurements capture cranial shape, and eight capture dental adaptations of both the upper and the lower jaw.
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The lower jaw of the haddock is slightly shorter than the upper jaw and the fish has a small single barbel.
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It also endorses mandibular advancement devices that push the lower jaw forward, which can help some people.
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Additionally, cats do not masticate meat, and the peglike first upper molar does not occlude with any tooth of the lower jaw, so it serves no clear function.
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Carcharodon is actually quite heterodont: the upper jaw teeth are wider and stouter than the lower jaw teeth, the teeth decrease markedly in size towards the corners of the mouth, and the crown of the third upper jaw tooth is short compared to its neighbours, and has
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Similarly, the anchovy-like clupeoids are usually distinctive because of their projecting, pig-like snout, large mouth and ‘underslung’ lower jaw.
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Moving back to the morphology of the rorqual lower jaw, a tall, well-developed coronoid process – way larger than that of any other mysticete – projects from each jaw bone and forms the attachment site for a tendinous part of the temporalis muscle, termed the frontomandibular stay.
From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
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The fossil skull's upper and lower jaws reveal deep channels and grooves that once held nerves and blood vessels.
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One animal of this kind, called the dinotherium, is supposed to have been not less than eighteen feet long; it had a mole-like form of the shoulder-blade, conferring the power of digging for food, and a couple of tusks turning down from the lower jaw, by which it could have attached itself, like the walrus, to a shore or bank, while its body floated in the water.
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He considered that the mandibles and first maxillæ of Arthropods were the homologues of the upper and lower jaws of Vertebrates, adducing as confirmatory evidence the fact that in snakes the rami are separate.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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The dentition of the species is highly reduced, with males possessing one or occasionally two pairs of short teeth in the tip of the lower jaw.
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It had fangs sticking out of its upper and lower jaw, which was common enough, but no wings straddling the row of spikes that also ran, backswept, over its back.
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The effect of this trend among cynodonts, toward a single lower jaw bone, was to make the jaws stronger.
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Gross on amputation at elbow-joint, 61. on amputation, 81-87. on excision of hip, 132. on lithotomy, 262. on rhinoplastic operation, 178. on excision of lower jaw, 192.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
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Every reptile, living or fossil, however, has at least four bones in the lower jaw and only one auditory ossicle, the stapes… There are no transitional fossil forms showing, for instance, three or two jawbones, or two ear bones.
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It is not unusual for them to have lower jaws and noses ripped off in a fight.
The Sun
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Slowly, its lower jaw dropped until its mouth was an impossible maw, a gaping hole that defied definition.
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The genioglossus muscles take origin from the middle of the back of the lower jaw and have a fan-like insertion into each side of the midline of the tongue.
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- A paired ossification appears in the palato-pterygoid cartilage the pterygoid bone (pt.), while - A splint of bone, the quadrato-jugal, appears at the angle of articulation with the lower jaw.
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Prior to the early mammal Sinoconodon, the lower jaws of advanced nonmammalian cynodonts such as Probainognathus maintained substantial differences from those of early mammals.
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The skeleton turned out to be a composite of three individuals, the head and lower jaw having been replaced during the mummy's long history.
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Colosteus was recently monographed by Hook, and it might be difficult to significantly extend his description of the lower jaw.
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The peglike first upper molar does not occlude with any tooth of the lower jaw, so it serves no clear function.
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The second and third molars of the upper jaw have three such prominent tubercles (excluding a row of small tubercles on the hinder margin of the second); they are, in fact, tri-tuberculate; whilst the two hindermost molars of the lower jaw have four tubercles and are called quadri-tuberculate.
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He didn't actually grind his teeth but his lower jaw moved in a clamped, muscle-bound sort of way.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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In December she was given a course of injections in both her upper and lower jaw.
The Sun
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When they have ceased to run, the bundle is opened and the bones taken out and buried, except the lower jawbone, which is preserved, sometimes along with one of the lower arm bones.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
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Hen salmon have a tiny kype on the lower jaw but unlike cocks they retain normal head proportions while in the river.
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Mammals are unique among extant vertebrates in possessing a lower jaw formed by a single bony element, the dentary.
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It differs from C. dispar in the lower jaw, shorter neck vertebrae, and straighter ischium ending in a small "foot" among other features.
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She looked at him for a moment, balled up her fist, and delivered an uppercut to his lower jaw that sent him off his feet and back towards the steps.
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In advanced herbivorous cynodonts, like the tritylodonts, the ability to move the lower jaws in a fore-aft direction was exploited for the purpose of cutting up plant material by the cheek dentition.
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A gnawer by nature, the hamster had formidable, chisel-like incisors in both upper and lower jaws, and it knew how to use them.
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In flyingfishes, and in some halfbeaks such as Arrhamphus (and other genera not included in this study, e.g., Chriodorus and Melapedaliori), the extended lower jaw is lost in adults.
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They do this around spawning time, when they have developed big kypes, the hooked portion of the lower jaw.
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The permanent false molar, which is also concealed in this upper jaw, is larger than that of the lower jaw of Macropus titan, but I have observed
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2
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Light brown or moorit in colour, they have definite mouflon pattern markings to include white underparts around the eyes, lower jaw, belly, knees and inside lower leg and tail together with a rump patch.
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The jaw is undershot, which means the lower jaw is longer than the upper jaw.
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Half a pig skull, articulated with its mandible (lower jaw) and atlas (top neck vertebra), and a pig humerus were found near the man's upper left forearm.
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Reaching down he took the mare in a firm grip by the lower jaw, stretched her head upward until he looked into her great soft eyes.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Even at first glance, the shape of the four-inch-long bone and the linear arrangement of tooth sockets told us that this was a dentary, or tooth-bearing portion of a lower jaw.
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In one species observed by me all the avicularia on the same branch often moved simultaneously backwards and forwards, with the lower jaw widely open, through an angle of about 90°, in the course of five seconds; and their movement caused the whole polyzoary to tremble.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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It may take whiplash men with stiff upper lips and loose lower jaws to build an empire.
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In others, the way the upper and lower jaws meet can cause teeth to look unsightly and lead to an incorrect bite. Orthodontic treatment may be able to correct this.
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There are two barbels on the upper jaw and four on the lower jaw (mandible).
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When cancer robbed him of his lower jaw, it didn't stop his prolific output.
Times, Sunday Times
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The front of the skull and the lower jaw were narrow and beak-like.
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Andrewsiphius had previously been regarded as an odontocete on the basis of its elongate and compressed lower jaw (Sahni & Mishra 1975).
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Bizarre long-tailed, robust-jawed Jeholornis (almost certainly synonymous with Shenzhouraptor, and perhaps with Jixiangornis too), known from stomach contents to have eaten seeds at least occasionally, has just three very small teeth at each lower jaw tip (Zhou & Zhang 2002): the upper jaw was edentulous.
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view
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P.ace N.P. at the coccyx, or near it on the spine; and then treat, by firm but momentary touches of the P. P., over the lower maxillary -- _pterygoid_ -- muscles and nerves; indeed, over the _entire_ lower jaw and its articulations.
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The three species pictured above top to bottom: pink salmon, sockeye salmon, and redband steelhead are all male fish showing the elongated upper and lower jaws, called kype.
Trout and Salmon of North America
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In ground hornbills the anatomy of the quadratomandibular ligament makes it impossible for the upper jaw to be raised or lowered without an automatic lowering or raising of the lower jaw, and the ligament is so strong that the lower jaw stays connected to the skull even in dried skeletons (Burton 1984).
Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah
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On being opened it was found to contain a piece of the anatomy of Saint Valentine, the lower jaw of Saint Martha, with one tooth still in place, and a small package upon which the name of the
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-- Ears half length of head, narrow and rounded at tip; face abruptly narrowed in front of eyes; muzzle long, narrow, cylindrical; lower jaw slightly projecting; eyes large; tongue very long, last third attenuated, covered with brush-like papillae; interfemoral membrane very narrow, especially at root of tail; fur reddish brown, and very long.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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In this immense proboscidian, whose skull was three feet long, the upper pair of tusks had disappeared, and those of the lower jaw were bent down with a backward curve in walrus fashion.
The Elements of Geology
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To distinguish a chinook from the closely related coho salmon, examine the gums on the lower jaw: Those of a chinook will be black; a coho's will be white.
Natural History Facts about the King (or Chinook) Salmon of the Pacific Coast and the Great Lakes
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Disembowellments, lower jaws hewn off, spears piercing thighs, bladders, lungs, eye sockets - each and every one of the harsh clinical, medical details of Homeric butchery.
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What you are feeling is the condyle of the lower jaw.
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The sperm whale, a toothed mammal whose lower jaw resembles a vast surfboard with peaked crenellations at its edges, has been found at 3000 metres.
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The evolution of fish feeding systems is a history of change in multiple mechanical systems that raise the head, drop the lower jaw, expand the hyoid, and protrude the upper jaw.
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The mechanism by which these fish capture prey involves upper jaw protrusion, lower jaw depression, hyoid depression, and cranial rotation.
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The barbel on its lower jaw helped to identify it.
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Another problem is an overbite (upper jaw hangs over the lower jaw) or underbite (lower jaw is larger than the upper jaw).
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The mandibular arch in the developing fish is abruptly angled, as in the embryo of Tetrapoda; the upper prong of it ossifies into the palatine and pterygoid; at the angle is formed the quadrate (jugal, Cuvier), and to the quadrate is articulated the lower jaw, which ossifies round the lower prong or Meckel's cartilage.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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The _submaxillary gland_ lies under the integument and fascia in the triangle formed by the lower jaw and the two bellies of the digastric muscle.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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But the two anterior big molars of the lower jaw are seen to have each five well-marked cones, cusps or tubercles; they are quinqui-tuberculate, whilst in man the first lower molar is often quadri-tuberculate and the second even more frequently so.
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During jaw retraction, the neck was straightened, thereby pushing the braincase anteriorly as the lower jaw was pulling the prey caudally.
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This also leads to an asymmetric growth of the lower jaw and a very noticeable deformity of the lower part of the face.
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These remains included isolated teeth and a lower jaw of Equus, postcranial remains and lower molars of Mammuthus, a tooth and dermal ossicles of a mylodontid edentate, and glyptodont scutes.
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The margin of the talonid is surrounded by a series of cusps (‘cuspids,’ actually, since this is a lower jaw molar) which enclose a talonid basin.
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Its skeleton segmented, as in mammals and birds, into three parts; the upper part gave rise to the palatine and pterygoid in Anura, but seemed to disappear in Urodeles, where the so-called palatine and pterygoid developed in the mucous membrane of the mouth; the middle part gave, as in birds, the quadrate, which formed a suspensorium for both arches; the lower part, as Meckel's cartilage, formed a foundation for the bones of the lower jaw.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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In one zoophyte the head itself was fixed, but the lower jaw free: in another it was replaced by a triangular hood, with a beautifully-fitted trap-door, which evidently answered to the lower mandible.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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Classically, infection appears in the lower jaw.
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In reptiles and primitive synapsids, the right and left lower jaws are each made up of a number of bones, one of which is the dentary, or tooth-bearing, bone.
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It may take whiplash men with stiff upper lips and loose lower jaws to build an empire.
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The lower jawbone of the hippopotamus reveals six incisor teeth, whereas the hippopotamus that survives in Africa has only four incisors.
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The lower jawbone of the hippopotamus reveals six incisor teeth, whereas the hippopotamus that survives in Africa has only four incisors.
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Now that he is strucken with cancer he has lost hsi lower jaw but has decided to keep doing what he loves, that is why he is so inspiring
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Rothman believes the muscle helps to lift the lower jaw and move it from side to side.
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Similarly, control of the anuran tongue is achieved largely through its mechanical relationship with the lower jaw.
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The lower jaw exhibits several characteristics superficially resembling those in some felids.
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The Indian rhino has well-developed incisor teeth and two long canine teeth in its lower jaw.
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During mammalian evolution, the lower jaw became just one bone, the dentary, with the articular no longer attached to the lower jaw.
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All these animals are united by subtle skull features, such as the absence of a hole in the lower jaw called the mandibular fenestra and the flat, wrinkle-cusped teeth set along the jaws.
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It has large tooth-like projections on the lower jaw, the adult eyes have horizontal pupils, non-webbed toes and longitudinal elevated skin folds.
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Any of various fierce, mostly tropical marine fishes of the genus Sphyraena that resemble pike, have a projecting lower jaw with fanglike teeth , and include some edible species.
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His eyes grew a little wider and his lower jaw dropped, but he quickly recollected himself.
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Classically, infection appears in the lower jaw.
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The dental arch of the lower jaw is in a state of mesial occlusion with that of the upper jaw.
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Any of various fierce, mostly tropical marine fishes of the genus Sphyraena that resemble pike, have a projecting lower jaw with fanglike teeth , and include some edible species.
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The upper and the lower jaws were certainly covered with horny beaks in life, like the beak in turtles and, it can be assumed, in the Triassic rhynchosaurs.
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Several species, including the legless lizard, banded sand snake, and shovel-nosed snake, have small eyes, narrow heads, counter-sunk lower jaws, and very smooth scales — adaptations to swimming and breathing in loose sand.
Adaptations of desert amphibians and reptiles
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The hair on the upper and lower jaws should be similar in quality and texture to that on the body, and of sufficient length to present an appearance of additional strength and finish to the foreface.
Undefined
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It may take whiplash men with stiff upper lips and loose lower jaws to build an empire.
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Methods: Twenty humans , 20~50 years old, were analyzed by the cantilever bending experiment to lower jaw.
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In order to restore the masticatory efficiency of the left side of the lower jaw, a bridge consisting of one gold crown and two porcelain crowns was constructed.
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Male turkeys - called stags - famously display a distensible frontal process, or snood, fleshy polyp-like lumps called caruncles, and a dewlap that extends from the lower jaw to the neck.
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Although cranial fragments and mandibles were very abundant at the butchery place of the Odeon, the nasal bone and the most anterior part of the upper and lower jaw (premaxilla and mandible) were missing.
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Lest the piece should slip through the hole in the lip, a kind of rivet is formed by twine bound round the inner extremity, and this, protruding into the space left by the extraction of the four front teeth of the lower jaw, entices the tongue to act upon the extremity, which gives it a wriggling motion indescribably ludicrous during conversation.
In the Heart of Africa
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The canines have a sharp bend and fit into a groove on an expanded process on the lower jaw: a feature seen in other sabertooths but not in Smilodon.
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The lower jaw is the primary site of force transmission from the body and jaw muscles to the jaws, in mouth opening and, to a lesser extent, jaw closing.
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Alterations have taken place in the skin, the hair, the neck, and the head; the lower jaw has become bigger; the bones of the arms and legs have lengthened, and the American of to-day requires a different kind of glove from the Englishman.
Crime and Its Causes
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But now we have much more complete material - upper and lower jaws - that gives us a better idea of what Biretia is and how it fits into the broader picture of early anthropoid evolution.
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Now, he labored under a very singular malady, -- not that I ever knew it at the time, -- a kind of luxation of the lower jaw, which, when it came on, happened somehow to press upon some vital nerve or other, and left him perfectly paralyzed till it was restored to its proper place.
Charles O'Malley — Volume 1
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Adults have eight premolar teeth, two next to each canine tooth in the upper and lower jaw. Their job is to chew and grind up food.
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Mr Hallam was seen by a surgeon who found that his lower jaw was broken and he had damaged teeth.
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They are known to bite inquisitive humans using tooth-like projections on their lower jaw.
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The pair discovered tooth marks on a femur bone from a Champsosaurus, an aquatic reptile that grew up to five feet long; the rib of a dinosaur, most likely a hadrosaurid or ceratopsid; the femur of another large dinosaur that was likely an ornithischian; and a lower jaw bone from a small marsupial.
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