- Ramus of the mandible
- One of the two prominent, projecting back parts of the horseshoe-shaped lower jaw bone.
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Ramus of the mandible
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Ramus of the mandible — Bone: Ramus of the mandible Mandible. Outer surface. Side view … Wikipedia
Angle of the mandible — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = angulus mandibulae GraySubject = 44 GrayPage = 174 Caption = Mandible. Outer surface. Side view. (Angle labeled at bottom right. Lateral surface.) Caption2 = Mandible. Inner surface. Side view. (Angle… … Wikipedia
Ossification of the mandible — The mandible is ossified in the fibrous membrane covering the outer surfaces of Meckel s cartilages. These cartilages form the cartilaginous bar of the mandibular arch (see p. 66), and are two in number, a right and a left. Their proximal or… … Wikipedia
angle of the mandible — or angle of the jaw : the angle formed by the junction of the ramus and the body of the human mandible … Useful english dictionary
Coronoid process of the mandible — Bone: Coronoid process of the mandible Mandible. Outer surface. Side view. (Coronoid process labeled at top center.) Latin processus coronoideus mand … Wikipedia
Changes produced in the mandible by age — Fig. 1: At birth. Fig. 2: In childhood … Wikipedia
Mandible — The mandible is the bone of the lower jaw. The joint where the mandible meets the upper jaw at the temporal bone is called the temporomandibular joint. * * * A U shaped bone (in superior view), forming the lower jaw, articulating by its upturned… … Medical dictionary
Ramus — In anatomy, a branch, such as a branch of a blood vessel or nerve. For example, the ramus acetabularis arteriae circumflexae femoris medialis is the branch of an artery that goes to the socket of the hip joint. The plural of ramus is rami. * * *… … Medical dictionary
ramus mandibulae — [TA] ramus of mandible: a quadrilateral process projecting superiorly from the posterior part of either side of the mandible. Called also r. of jaw. Ramus mandibulae (ramus of mandible), which together with the corpus mandibulae (body of the… … Medical dictionary
ramus marginalis mandibularis nervi facialis — [TA] marginal mandibular branch of facial nerve: a branch of the facial nerve that runs forward from the front of the parotid gland along the border of the mandible, deep to the platysma and depressor anguli oris muscles, supplying the latter and … Medical dictionary
