Mandible in a sentence as a noun

Teeth simply don't fit on the mandible anymore.

I wonder how many times they can do that before the action breaks their mandible or kills them?

For instance, on the mandible chart, the lines make it very easy to see that the teal, red, and blue lines have similar patterns.

A variety of grave goods were present at the site, including the mandible of a wild boar in the arms of one of the skeletons.

Moving teeth and fixing your arch doesn't require or necessarily involve mandible changes.

Teeth simply don't fit on the mandible anymore, because there is no selection force to prefer people with good teeth as marriage partners.

In few of those were the bites even deep enough along the mandible to engage the canines, and in no case did the bite come from the side to emphasize the canine.

Thus far, I have to say that I think there's some truth to exerting a little pressure to my maxilla/mandible, and if anything I can breathe much better, which for me is a bigger win than getting straighter teeth.

"You can remove a rat's cerebrum and have it stay alive and keep doing stuff: "Cage climbing, resistance to gravity, suspension and muscle tone reactions, rhythmic vibrissae movements and examination of objects with snout and mandible were difficult to distinguish from controls.

Mandible definitions

noun

the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth

See also: mandibula submaxilla jawbone jowl