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Noun(1) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth(2) the lower jawbone in vertebrates(3) it is hinged to open the mouth

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(1) The upper mandible of the bill is dark, and the legs are bright orange.(2) The tongue is suspended from the inside of the mandible above the hyoid bone and has muscles with a range of different orientations.(3) the drake is all black except for an orange mark on the upper mandible(4) In addition, bill curvature was measured, taking the radius of the height of the upper mandible from the line traced from the base to the tip of the bill.(5) Centipedes were measured from the tip of the upper mandible to the posterior end of the last body segment.(6) Breeding adults have a laterally flattened horn on the upper mandible .(7) The bill is a pinkish horn color and dark markings appear on the upper mandible .(8) In the mandible , there are four incisors, two canines, four premolars, and six molars.(9) They crush the honeybees in their mandibles one after another until the bees are all dead.(10) In mandibulate development, which is considered to be the ancestral form, the labial and maxillary appendages develop along similar if not identical paths producing articulated appendages.(11) Spontaneous mandibular dislocation usually occurs in people with a history of such dislocations.(12) The human remains comprise one complete mandible, two fragmentary mandibles , and a cranial fragment.(13) Insects are mandibulate , not chelicerate arthropods, like spiders.(14) In addition, we have been studying the orthologous genes in the red flour beetle, which has relatively unspecialized mandibulate mouthparts.(15) The above is an example of the airway dilation that can be achieved with mandibular advancement by a dental appliance in properly selected patients.(16) Both wolves and spotted hyenas tend to leave the skulls and mandibles of their prey behind, but they often remove entire limbs, especially from the upper exposed side of the carcass.