Lower+jaw
41jaw — [dʒɔː] noun [C] 1) the part of your mouth where your teeth grow 2) the lower part of your face that includes your chin and stretches back almost to your ear • sb s jaw drop ped used for saying that someone was very surprised or shocked[/ex] …
42lower impression — mandibular impression an impression of the mandibular jaw and related tissues and dental structures …
43Osteonecrosis of the jaw — Osteonecrosis of the jaws Classification and external resources Osteonecrosis of the jaw of the upper left jaw in a patient diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency ICD 10 M …
44lantern jaw — noun a long thin lower jaw • Hypernyms: ↑lower jaw, ↑mandible, ↑mandibula, ↑mandibular bone, ↑submaxilla, ↑lower jawbone, ↑jawbone, ↑jowl * * * ˌlantern ˈjaw 7 …
45Radium jaw — is an occupational disease brought on by the ingestion and subsequent absorption of radium into the bones of Radium dial painters. The symptoms are necrosis of the mandible (lower jawbone) and the maxilla (upper jaw) as well as constant bleeding… …
46Heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany. [1910 15] * * * ▪ hominid fossil also called Mauer jaw enigmatic human mandible, thought to be about 500,000 years old, found in 1907 in the great… …
47lantern jaw — lan′tern jaw n. 1) anat. a distinctly protruding lower jaw 2) anat. a long, thin jaw • Etymology: 1690–1700 lan′tern jawed , adj …
48locked-jaw — Tetanus Tet a*nus, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? stretched, ? to stretch.] 1. (Med.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles …
49lantern jaw — 1. a distinctly protruding, often wide lower jaw. 2. a long, thin jaw. [1690 1700; so called from the fancied resemblance of the face to the shape of a lantern] * * * …
50bottle jaw — n a pendulous edematous condition of the tissues under the lower jaw in cattle and sheep resulting from infestation with bloodsucking gastrointestinal parasites (as of the genus Haemonchus) * * * edema in the mandibular region of a grazing horse… …
