lower jaw

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Noun

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lower jaw - the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth jawbone, jowl, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla gnathion - the most inferior point of the mandible in the midline gonion - the craniometric point on either side at the apex of the lower jaw mandibular notch - small indentation in the middle of the lower jawbone pogonion - the craniometric point that is the most forward-projecting point on the anterior surface of the chin symphysion - the most forward point of the alveolar process of the mandible articulator - a movable speech organ condylar process, condyloid process, mandibular condyle - the condyle of the ramus of the mandible that articulates with the skull coronoid process of the mandible - the coronoid process that provides an attachment for the temporal muscle jaw - the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth lantern jaw - a long thin lower jaw