LOWER JAW

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Meaning:

The jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("lower jaw" is a kind of...):

articulator (a movable speech organ)

jaw (the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth)

Meronyms (parts of "lower jaw"):

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)

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lower jaw"):

lantern jaw (a long thin lower jaw)

The part of the face below the lower lip and including the protruding part of the lower jaw.

(Chin, NCI Thesaurus)

Fractures of the lower jaw.

(Mandible Fracture, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)