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

Gomphotheriidae had clubbed lower tusks and a more narrow mandible, while Choerolophodontidae completely lacked mandibular tusks and their lower jaw was long and trough-like.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023

Brown; throat and breast paler; chin blackish, middle of the body snowy, feathers of the tail black and narrow; tip of the upper mandible hooked.

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