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What is the jaw called?
Upper jaw is a maxilla, and the lower jaw is a mandible.
Is the lower jaw of a mammal called mandible?
The lower jaw of a mammal is called a mandible. The upper jaw is the maxilla.
How do you spell the human jaw?
The human jaw consists of two parts, one fixed and one movable. The fixed jaw is the maxilla (upper jaw) and the movable lower jaw is the mandible.
What is your chin bone called?
the chin bone is actually the jaw bone and is called the mandible
How many incisors are there in lower jaw does an adult have?
The average human has a total of 32 teeth. Half of them are on the lower jaw.
The bone that holds you bottom teeth?
Mandible is the lower jaw and maxible is the upper jaw.
What is the lower jaw of an owl called?
A mandible.
What is your jaw mussels called?
The muscles in your jaw are called the masseter muscles. These muscles are responsible for closing the jaw by raising the lower mandible.
Total number of bones in human jaw?
Two. the Maxilla and the Mandible. The teeth are not included because they are not bones
What is the scientific name for jawbones?
The lower jaw bone is called a Mandible (corpus mandibulae); that is the bone that gives form. The other bone in your jaw is called Maxillary and that is the one that holds your teeth.Upper one is maxilla and lower one is mandible.
What is the real name for the lower jaw?
It is called the Mandible
What is the bone that is known as your jaw bone?
A person has two jaw bones. One upper jaw bone called the maxilla and the lower bone called the mandible. The maxilla doesn't move but the mandible does. The muscle (masseter) that closes the two is one of the strongest muscles in the human body.
