Definition of Lower jawbone

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Lower Jawbone

lower court
lower criticism
lower deck
lower esophageal sphincter
lower extremes
lower extremity
lower eyelid
lower heating value
lower house
lower houses
lower hybrid waves
lower ivy
lower jaw
lower jawbone (current term)
lower lateral cutaneous nerve of arm
lower leaf zone
lower lid
lower limb
lower limit
lower limits
lower lip
lower lobe of lung
lower mantle
lower motor neuron
lower motor neuron dysarthria
lower motor neuron lesion
lower nephron nephrosis
lower nodal extrasystole

Literary usage of Lower jawbone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"1715. the Rorqual, so that the lower jawbone rises a little to offer its articular convex surface. This disposition, joined to the absence of a coronoid ..."

2. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer (1913)
"Preservation of the lower jawbone. Mourning costume. testified their sorrow, the body is buried on the second or third day after death. ..."

3. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science; Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1874)
"The lower jaw has alao an alveolar edge, which contains alveoli for tho reception of the teeth. The lower jawbone is developed by two points of ossification ..."

4. Our Bodies and how We Live: An Elementary Text-book of Physiology and by Albert Franklin Blaisdell (1904)
"The lower set of teeth is fixed in the lower jawbone, which moves by means of a ... A, upper jawbone; B, malar bone; C, nasal bone; D, lower jawbone ; E, ..."

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