In the dog and cat it is clearly recognisable in the superficial layer of muscles by the long and thick prominence which it produces below the masseter, against the inferior border of the mandible (see pp.
Arising from the zygomatic arch, and passing downwards and backwards, it is inserted into the external surface of the ramus of the mandible and into its angle.
The upper mandible is flat and broad, and hooked at the end; the lower mandible has appended to it a very dilatable bag, reaching eight or nine inches down the neck, and large enough to contain several quarts of water.
Coadapted: formed so as to work together to one end; as the mandible and maxilla in Chrysopids, etc.
Condyle: a process which articulates the base of the mandible to the head: in general any process by means of which an appendage is articulated into a pan or cavity.
A triple row of very small teeth was observable in the upper mandiblewithin the others.
Its upper mandible longest, tipped with a hooked point which rendered it obtuse, and furnished with thirty large teeth pointing inwards.
Lower mandible channelled underneath, and furnished with about forty smaller teeth, likewise pointing inwards.
Their natural hue is rather curious, the outer surface of the upper mandible being very dark grey, spotted profusely with black, and its lower surface pale flesh-colour.
In the lower mandible the inner surface is flesh-coloured, and the outer surface pinky white, sometimes nearly pure white.
A needle must be stuck into the lower mandible perpendicularly.
These birds fly rapidly along the surface of the water, with the lower mandible immersed, thus skimming out small fishes.
In Buceros corrugatus, the whole beak and immense casque are coloured more conspicuously in the male than in the female; and "the oblique grooves upon the sides of the lower mandible are peculiar to the male sex.
In removing a large embryo, try to get hold of the tip of the mandible with the small forceps, so that it can be drawn out, point foremost, without splitting the shell.
Fasten the mandibles together by thrusting a pin up through the lower mandible into the skull, or else by passing a pin through the upper mandible at the nostrils and tying around the bill behind it with a thread.
The end of the mandible was upturned and without teeth, its form being quite unique among Cetacea.
The mandible is inflected; this familiar character of the Marsupials goes back to the earliest representatives of the order in Mesozoic times (see p.
As to osteological characters, it has a more oblique symphysis of the mandible than in any other Carnivore.
In the skull the pterygoids are thick and meet in the middle line; the symphysis of the mandible is long.
The mandible has a long and strong symphysis, and its angle is not inflected.
Teeth, more or fewer, are found in both jaws, but those of the mandible are alone functional (?
There are but a single pair of teeth in the mandible attached to nearly the middle of its length (whence the generic name).
On the mandible the great length of the diastema between the incisors and premolars is a Giraffine characteristic.
Wright, "The Mandible of Man from the Morphological and Anthropological points of view," Essays and Studies presented to W.
The mandibleis V-shaped, with a slight inflection of the angle, and a distinct postarticular process.
The paroccipital processes are shorter and more rounded, and the basi-occipital tubercles more prominent than in Anomalopteryx, while the quadrate and mandible resemble the same bones in that genus somewhat closely.
Lower mandible nearly straight and rather slighter than in Anomalopteryx, V-shaped.
The mandible may be readily distinguished from that of the other genera by the low position of the inner aperture of the dental canal, which pierces the bone obliquely to join the small lateral vacuity.
The latter is of a black colour and has the upper mandible less curved, and the sides of the lower mandiblemore swollen than is the case in the other Ara species.
The bill is long, curved, non-serrated, the upper mandible a few millimetres longer than the lower jaw.
In this species the casque or excrescence on the upper mandible is very slight.
The beak has on the upper mandible an excrescence which in some species is nearly as large as the bill itself.
This and some peculiarities attending the nostrils and under mandible have induced a discerning naturalist to suppose that this species might constitute a genus per se.
The mandible is in the shape of a wide U, with a slightly inflected angle, and a large post-articular process.
The lower mandible is straight and stout, recalling somewhat that of Rhea, but the maxillary branches are higher and stouter.
A remarkable imitation of an antelope's horn, a process of the mandible of an insect, in the possession of R.
The mandible is also noticeable for the enormous backward projection of the angular.
The angulo-splenial is a strong flat bone which forms the inner and lower part of the mandible for the greater part of its length.
The lower angle of the quadrate bears a cartilaginous =condyle= with which the mandible articulates.
In every case except Tarsipes the angle of the mandible is more or less inflected.
The rami of the mandible are united at the symphysis, and there is an ossified ring in the sclerotic.
Paired maxillae, premaxillae, vomers and a parasphenoid occur forming the upper jaw and roof of the mouth, and a series of membrane bones are found investing the mandible and forming the operculum.
The rami of the mandible are not ankylosed together in front.
The condyle of the mandible is transversely elongated, and the glenoid fossa is very deep; in consequence of this arrangement the mandible can perform an up and down movement only, any rotatory or back and fore movement being impossible.
The vomerine teeth are small, while those attached to the mandible and the palato-pterygoid region are large and bear several roughened ridges adapted for grinding food.
The condyle of the mandible is elongated from before backwards, and owing to the absence of a postglenoid process to the squamosal, a backward and forward motion of the jaw can take place.
The mandible is almost always, if not invariably, toothless.
The ascending portion of the mandible is very high and broad, the angle rounded and the coronoid process moderate in size.
Its outer surface is marked by a deep recess, and it ends below in a strong condyle with which the mandible articulates.
The frontal and occipital regions of the skull approximate in form to those in Man; the angle of the mandible is expanded, but less so than among the Howlers (Mycetes).
The mandible (or lower jaw) has its lower hind edge, or angle, produced backward.
This genus is distinguished from all other Lemurs by "the angle of the mandible being produced into a large hook-like flange.
Hook-billed ducks are crossed with common ducks, "many young ones are produced with the upper mandible shorter than the lower, which not unfrequently causes the death of the bird.
In the Bagadotten the upper mandible is remarkably arched, and the premaxillary bones are proportionally broader.
One might have said that at this distance she had already entered the vast bay, for a straight line drawn from Claw Cape to Cape Mandible would have rested on her starboard quarter.
A tremendous report was heard, but the piece had held good, and the colonists rushing to the windows, saw the shot graze the rocks of Mandible Cape, nearly five miles from Granite House, and disappear in Shark Gulf.
From Claw Cape to the Mandible Capes, in all the extent of Union Bay, there was nothing to lead him to suppose that the island was or could be inhabited.
The most marked difference that he noticed was the crest upon the upper mandible which he supposed was permanent and not, as we now know, a characteristic of this species only during the breeding season.
The most remarkable characteristic of these birds, however, is the large pouch formed by an elastic skin depending from the two sides of the lower mandible and extending nearly the whole length of the bill.
South American subspecies of Mustela frenata) and small angular process of the mandible are characters, in varying degrees, also common to all South American weasels.
The skull (plate 28) lacks the occiput, the right mandible posterior to m1, and the right pterygoid; the right zygomatic arch is fractured.
Owing to the straight top to the upper mandible the bill has a slightly up-turned appearance.
It can always be distinguished from the Horned by the upper mandible being straight on the top.
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