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Meanings of dentary bone in English

The bone of the lower jaw.

Bone of vertebrates.

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Examples for "jawbone"
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Susannah leaned forward and touched the jawbone Roland held in his hands.
The waste lands
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She nodded at the case, where the jawbone was supposed to be.
The nightmarys
3
There is Samson belaboring the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
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A woman played the other jawbone, which was from a younger animal.
The Mammoth Hunters
5
A scar along his jawbone wouldn't be pretty, but it wasn't disastrous.
Complete Books of Blood
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Seven cases were located in the mandible, and 5 in the maxilla.
Pubmed
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This report describes 2 cases of intraosseous PH arising in the mandible.
Pubmed
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The usual presentation was a mass at the angle of the mandible.
Pubmed
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The maxilla and mandible were segmented and aligned to the postoperative position.
Pubmed
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Rojka's upper and lower mandible armor shifted as he spoke to her.
Envoy
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The upper mandibula is much longer than the lower, overhanging it considerably.
Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia / Performed Un...
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He was going on to add that mandibula signified jaw bone; abdomen, meant belly.
Piccolissima
3
The mandibula and look at the cheeks.
Wired
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Figure 58 represents an epignathus, a peculiar type parasitic monster, in which the parasite is united to the inferior maxillary bone of the autosite.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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The face increases in volume and becomes elongated, in consequence of the hypertrophy of the superior and inferior maxillary bones.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine