(n.) The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radiographic changes in the jawbones including alterations of the laminae durae were observed in twenty-three children.
(2) You can tell these ones are evil, because they are scowling, have weirder facial piercings, and wear epaulettes made of human jawbones.
(3) A radiographic survey of the jawbone adjacent to the teeth revealed a high incidence of bone pathosis in 889 randomly chosen patients.
(4) Its remains were recently put on display in the Museum of Docklands, although its jawbones stood as a roadside arch in Dagenham, still remembered in the name of Whalebone Lane.
(5) In the eighteenth century, a pedestrian strolling around Georgian London may have witnessed the bizarre sight of an ageing gentleman parading the streets on a painted horse and brandishing the jawbone of an ass.
(6) A total of 114 tumours of the jawbones was confirmed in a survey of 204,583 surgical specimens in Chinese in the University Department of Pathology, Hong Kong from 1963-1982.
(7) Bone-appositioning inflammatory processes (condensing osteitis), on the other hand, appeared mostly in the mandible, very often involving the first molar, thus indicating the differing biologic behavior of the two jawbones.
(8) In Maxillo-facial surgery: for orbital floor, maxillary sinus and jawbone reconstruction.
(9) Since then, President Petro Poroshenko’s jawboning has brought the exchange rate back close to the level on which Ukraine’s 2015 budget was based.
(10) Neurilemmomas arising within the jawbones are rare.
(11) Jawbone, considered Fitbit’s long term rival, has had setbacks in the last year, with product delays hurting sales at a time when Fitbit sold 3.9m trackers in the first quarter of this year.
(12) It could walk on four legs on land and in water, and heard by picking up vibrations through its jawbone, just as modern whales do.
(13) The eighth case of a benign osteoblastoma of the jawbones is presented.
(14) Misfit between a jawbone-anchored bridge and the abutments in the patient's jaw may result in, for example, fixture fracture.
(15) According to his description of the martyrdom of the Saint, her teeth were extracted and her jawbones broken.
(16) With products such as the FitBit One, Jawbone Up and Nike+ FuelBand boasting impressive sales numbers (the FuelBand reportedly sold out within four hours of its launch), it seems that self-tracking is finding traction and on the way to becoming an ubiquitous feature of daily life.
(17) Periodontal disease is the collective term given to a variety of inflammatory conditions in the tissue that supports and secures the teeth to the jawbone.
(18) Thirty-four children with chronic renal failure were examined to evaluate the character and frequency of radiographic changes in the jawbones as related to radiographic abnormalities in other skeletal regions and laboratory data.
(19) At the lower part of the lingual surface of the teeth in the anterior row and the labial surface of the teeth in the posterior row the bundles of fibrils start at the dentine and some fibrils run through connective tissue, while others terminate in projections of the jawbones.
(20) Faces having the same anteroposterior value for the jawbones can have very different ANB angles (Figs.
Mandible
Definition:
(n.) The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.
(n.) The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. of Diptera.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stabilized mandible allowed suspension of the tongue.
(2) Chronic mandibular osteomyelitis must be differentiated from malignant disease involving the mandible.
(3) A 40-year-old woman who had undergone a mastectomy of the right breast two years before was admitted in our department with metastatic malignant tumor of the mandible.
(4) One peculiar case of giant ameloblastoma of the mandible is reported in this paper.
(5) X-ray examination disclosed a spicule formation surrounding the osteolytic focus in the mandible.
(6) A bucco-lingual cross action through the mandible in the canine area revealed central osteomas.
(7) The sites of growth and remodeling, and the associated changes in cortical bone structure, have been studied in the chimpanzee mandible and compared with those previously reported in the human and macaque mandibles.
(8) The use of the pectoralis major muscle only flap in conjunction with a free iliac crest bone graft for reconstruction of the mandible is described.
(9) The results revealed that: (1) There were few genetic variants on allelic constitutions of Chinese KM mouse colonies, and the genetic distance among KM subcolonies is 0.008-0.027 positively related with the time the colony closed; (2) The unique position of S: KM mouse was shown in phylogenetic diagram of 4 KM subcolonies, which agrees with the result from mandible analysis; (3) The allelic constitutions of KM mice differs from NIH mice a Swiss derivative colony at Es-3, Es-10, Glo-1, Gpt-1, Got-2 and Mpi-1 loci and the average genetic distance between KM and NIH colonies is 0.131 + 0.011, which indicates that Chinese KM mice is one of non-Swiss derivative subspecies.
(10) A 5-year-old male Doberman Pinscher had nasal stenosis, dropped mandible, bilateral atrophy of masseter and temporalis muscles, and Horner's syndrome caused by aleukemic myelomonocytic leukemia.
(11) Fractures to the midface in the pediatric age group are rare because the mandible and cranium provide protection and absorb most of the traumatic impact.
(12) With this method, it is possible to compare bone repair activity between experimental subjects and also between selected zones within individual bones and thus objectively define the pattern of repair that occurred in various anatomic regions of the grafted mandible.
(13) Forty-eight periapical lesions were induced in the mandible of dogs.
(14) Part of the fibers was mixed with the spheno-mandibular ligament and attaches on the lingula of the mandible.
(15) These findings were associated with progressive tumor infiltration of the mandible and do not appear to be related to other reports of aggressive periodontitis associated with impaired immunologic functions in AIDS patients.
(16) Radiographic manifestations include endosteal sclerosis of the neurocranium with loss of the diploë, osteosclerosis and hyperostosis of the mandible with absence of the normal antegonial notches, endosteal sclerosis of the diaphyses of long bones (including metacarpals and metatarsals), and osteosclerosis of the pelvis.
(17) For the experimental studies, fractures of the jaw bone in terms of oblique osteotomies from angle to sigmoid notch of the mandible of the Malaysian monkeys were made by using #700 fissure bur and reduced and fixed them in terms of interosseous wiring.
(18) Periodontal pockets were more frequently observed in maxillae than mandibles.
(19) A complex form of pluridistrectual dysmorphic disorder (hypertelorism, prognathism, frontal bossing, multiple cysts of the mandible, calcification in falx cerebri, etc) was also present, suggesting a limited form of Gorlin's syndrome (nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome).
(20) A technique for extreme lengthening of the mandible is presented.