jaw bone

collocation in English

meaningsofjawandbone

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jaw
noun
uk
/dʒɔː/us
/dʒɑː/
the lower part of your face that moves when you open ...
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bone
noun[C or U]
uk
/bəʊn/us
/boʊn/
any of the hard parts inside a human or animal that make up ...
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(Definition ofjawandbonefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Over time, thejawbonewould begin to abscess.
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The preservedjawboneis about 210 mm long.
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The dentary (lowerjawbone) itself is robust and short.
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Among them was ajawboneof a herbivorous dinosaur.
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The holotype, or original specimen, consists of only a maxilla (upperjawbone), and a dentary (lower jaw bone), both from the left side of the same individual.
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The lowerjawbonefragment is, lacking the tip, six centimetres long.
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It has 5-6 maxillary (upperjawbone) teeth behind fangs and 2 anterior temporals.
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The ear consists of a single ear bone connected to ajawbone.
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After painstaking excavation, they unearthed the skull,jawboneand cervical vertebra of the adult wooly rhinoceros.
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It is known only from a partial maxilla or upperjawboneand an associated impression of the bone.
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The longest teeth were in the maxilla (upperjawbone), with crowns up to 85 millimeters (3.3 in) long.
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All dental prosthesis requires goodjawbonesupport for it to be successful in the long run.
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Thejawbonewill never revert to its original shape once bone is lost and tissue contour has changed.
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The malleus is derived from the articular (a lowerjawbone), while the incus is derived from the quadrate (a cranial bone).
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The anatomical structure of the lowerjawbonemakes it possible to move the jaw both up and down and sideways.
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Once the heads have been collected they are shrunk by cutting the skull vertically and removing the skull andjawbone.
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The predentary is an extra bone in the front of the lower jaw, which extends the dentary (the main lowerjawbone).
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These bones form part of the main upperjawboneor maxilla, which converge in the middle to form a pair of prongs.
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In addition to having his wrist bone shattered andjawbonefractured, the attackers caused him internal bleeding, head and facial injuries and bruised ribs.
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Men usually have coarse-textured facial hair that begins at the top of thejawbonewhere a beard would start.
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Thejawboneis rather low: the specimen creates the illusion of a strong jaw because the left jaw is visible below the right one.
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While not a cancer that actually invades adjacent tissues, ameloblastoma is suspected to spread to adjacent areas of thejawbonevia marrow space.
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They have shortened snouts, beak-like jaws with few or no teeth, and a large opening in the lowerjawbone.
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