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  2. Mandible - Wikipedia

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    In jawed vertebrates, the mandible (from the Latin mandibula, 'for chewing'), lower jaw, or jawbone is a bone that makes up the lower – and typically more mobile – component of the mouth (the upper jaw being known as the maxilla). The jawbone is the skull's only movable, posable bone, sharing joints with the cranium's temporal bones.

  3. Flat bone - Wikipedia

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    The flat bones are: the occipital, parietal, frontal, nasal, lacrimal, vomer, sternum, ribs, and scapulae. [1] These bones are composed of two thin layers of compact bone enclosing between them a variable quantity of cancellous bone, [1] which is the location of red bone marrow. In an adult, most red blood cells are formed in flat

  4. Prognathism - Wikipedia

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    Mandibular prognathism is a protrusion of the mandible, affecting the lower third of the face. Prognathism can also be used to describe ways that the maxillary and mandibular dental arches relate to one another, including malocclusion (where the upper and lower teeth do not align).

  5. Solving the mystery of a human jawbone found in an Arizona ...

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    The bone belonged to deceased U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Everett Leland Yager. ... The surprise was that part of Yager's jaw hadn't made it into his grave along with the rest of his remains.

  6. Ossification - Wikipedia

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    Intramembranous ossification forms the flat bones of the skull, mandible and hip bone.. Osteoblasts cluster together to create an ossification center. They then start secreting osteoid, an unmineralized collagen-proteoglycan matrix that has the ability to bind calcium.

  7. Maxillary hypoplasia - Wikipedia

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    The underdevelopment of the bones in the upper jaw, which gives the middle of the face a sunken look. [1] This same underdevelopment can make it difficult to eat and can lead to complications such as Nasopharyngeal airway restriction. This restriction causes forward head posture which can then lead to back pain, neck pain, and numbness in the ...

  8. Jaw abnormality - Wikipedia

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    A jaw abnormality is a disorder in the formation, shape and/or size of the jaw. In general abnormalities arise within the jaw when there is a disturbance or fault in the fusion of the mandibular processes. The mandible in particular has the most differential typical growth anomalies than any other bone in the human skeleton.

  9. Axial skeleton - Wikipedia

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    3D medical animation still shot of human skull. The axial skeleton is the core part of the endoskeleton made of the bones of the head and trunk of vertebrates.In the human skeleton, it consists of 80 bones and is composed of the skull (28 bones, including the cranium, mandible and the middle ear ossicles), the vertebral column (26 bones, including vertebrae, sacrum and coccyx), the rib cage ...