Mandible

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mandible /maxilla

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  • When the mandible is carried horizontally forward, as in protruding the lower incisor teeth in front of the upper, the movement takes place principally in the upper joint, the disk and the condyle gliding forward on the mandibular fossa and articular tubercle.
  • —The mandible is ossified in the fibrous membrane covering the outer surfaces of Meckel’s cartilages.
  • In insects, the mandible is the segment forming the mouth.
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  • The narrator fails to convince the school authorities that he is not a corruptible minor, and Miss Mandible is consequently "ruined but fulfilled.

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