The glands between the lower jawbones and below the ears may be swollen.
The larynx is situated in the space between the lower jawbones just back of the root of the tongue.
Above the centre posts are hung up, strung to rattan, all the lower jawbones of hogs that have been slaughtered by the family: and their number furnishes a due estimate of the wealth of the owner of the house.
When everything is over they carefully gather together the jawbones of the pigs that have been killed in every house, fasten them to a long rattan, and hang them up in the public building at Elpanam.
Outline tracings of jawbones from Mauer and Le Moustier 41 14.
But while they send away the souls, they keep the skulls and jawbones of the victims; as many as thirty-five jawbones have been seen hanging in a single house in New Ireland.
We ascertained afterwards that these were the jawbonesof their enemies, preserved as trophies of victory.
In passing one of their cottages we happened to see about a score of human jawbones suspended from the roof, and anxious to get possession of one or two, I offered the most valuable articles I had about me in exchange.
The graves here spoken of are no doubt the temples in which the jawbones and navel-strings of the dead kings are kept and worshipped.
M142 Ghosts of the dead kings of Uganda supposed to adhere to their lower jawbones and their navel-strings, which are accordingly preserved in temples dedicated to the worship of the kings.
And Cratinus, in his Pluti, mentions jawbones of meat-- Fighting for a noble jawbone of beef.
These rudimentary teeth grow as the baby grows and push their way up or down from the jawbones until they finally make their appearance through the gums.
Their jawbones are generally arched forward toward the front, and are furnished with sharp horny plates, in which a fairly-marked denticulation or notching may sometimes be traced, as in the bills of birds of prey.
It was half-past five when Luke got back to Jawbones again.
At the end of his honeymoon Luke Sharper went to see a man about a dog, and left his wife to prepare Jawbones for his accommodation.
Jawbones was, I think we must say, an old-world house, and had the date 1623 carved over the doorway.
Hence they hang up the jawbones of deer and wild pigs in their houses, in order that the spirits which animate these bones may draw the living creatures of the same kind into the path of the hunter.
In the Poso district of Central Celebes hunters keep the jawbones of deer and wild pigs which they have killed and hang them up in their houses near the fire.
Their notion is that the souls of the dead deer and pigs tarry near their jawbones and attract the souls of living deer and pigs, which are thus drawn into the toils of the hunter.
We passed through many more villages, embowered in palm groves, and in each village we saw plenty of human skulls and long sticks with human jawbones hanging upon them.
Hanging on these sticks were the skulls and jawbones of men, pigs and crocodiles.
On one I counted twenty-five; there were also long rows of the jawbones of pigs, and a few crocodiles' heads.
In the Poso district of central Celebes hunters keep the jawbones of deer and wild pigs which they have killed and hang them up in their houses near the fire.
Then he pours palm-wine and sprinkles meal on the bones, saying, "Ye lower jawbones of beasts, ye are now come home.
When a Ewe hunter of Togoland has killed an antelope of a particular kind (Antilope leucoryx), he erects an enclosure of branches, within which he places the lower jawbones of all the animals he has shot.
The skin, tongue, or thejawbones may become affected, and by a very slow process it may extend downward upon the neck and even into the cavity of the chest.
Disease of the jawbones is at best a very serious matter and treatment is liable to be of no avail.
Actinomycosis of the jawbones leads to destruction of the teeth and impedes the movements necessary to chewing the feed.
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