agnathia

agnathia
noun /æɡˈneɪ.θi.ə/
A birth defect in which the mandible is missing.

When there is agnathia, instead of the inferior maxillary bone we find nothing but a kind of tubercle formed of skin, cellular tissue, fat, and some few muscular fibres.


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