0
Hyoid bone. It supports the tongue and serves as an attachment for muscles that move the tongue and function in swallowing.
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Slim long bone beneath the ear?
That bone is called as mandible or jaw bone. You have a pointed process below the ear in bony skull, called as styloid process.
Where is located the mandible?
The mandible is located on your skull. It is attached to your skull. It is called your JAW.
What is your chin bone called?
the chin bone is actually the jaw bone and is called the mandible
What is the only movable bone in the facial skeleton?
MandibleLower Jaw, called the Mandible
What is the only moveable bone in the face?
The mandible or lower jaw bone is the only bone in your skull that moves.
Only movable bone of the skull?
The mandible, also called the jaw bone, is the only movable bone in the skull. The lower teeth are rooted into the mandible while the upper teeth are rooted in the two maxillae.
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.
Which bone of the skull form the chin?
the orbital bone
What bone of the skull has two heads?
the mandible. the mandible is part of the skull and contains two heads which articulate with the temporal bone at a point called the mandibular fossa of the temporal bone
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 correct name for jaw bone?
In anatomy and physiology the jawbone is known as the mandible. The jawbone is the largest and strongest bone in the face.
Site of mental foramen?
The mental foramen gives you feeling in your lips and mouth. It is located on the mandible (Lower jaw bone), it is two little holes below your mouth
