mandible
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- n the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
- To their horror, scientists found that some of the specimens had been severely damaged; a pelvis was broken (possibly as a result of being dropped); a mandible had been snapped and .
- Nosing about on a farm some 50 miles from Johannesburg in 1938, bright-eyed Robert Broom found the left side of a manlike skull, a mandible, the distal end of a humerus, the .
- Few parts of the human skeleton are more subject to wear than the mandible, or lower jawbone.