mandible

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Holding your mandible in place with your hands, or one of Kim Kardashian’s Skims Seamless Sculpt Face Wraps™, is prohibited.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2025

The county medical examiner’s office tried for years to find the owner of the errant piece of mandible, but their DNA databases turned up no matches.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2024

“It’s a convincing case,” Ward says, “but it’s just one mandible until about 2 million years ago,” when at least two members of the genus, Homo habilis and H. erectus, appear elsewhere in eastern Africa.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

In the new study, Azar, Nel, Diying Huang, and Michael S. Engel describe two male mosquitoes with piercing mouthparts, including an exceptionally sharp, triangular mandible and elongated structure with small, tooth-like denticles.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023

Bill moderate, generally somewhat longer than the head, slender, curved, pointed and acuminated, the base higher than broad, the sides compressed, the top carinated; upper mandible notched at the tip, the under mandible laterally compressed.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William