Definition of Dentary. Meaning of Dentary. Synonyms of Dentary

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Definition of Dentary

Dentary
Dentary Den"ta*ry, a. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or bearing, teeth. -- n. The distal bone of the lower jaw in many animals, which may or may not bear teeth.

Meaning of Dentary from wikipedia

- vanished. In teleosts, only the dentary, articular, and angular bones remain, while in living amphibians, the dentary is accompanied only by the prearticular...
- bones of the upper jaw), a maxilla (main bone of the upper jaw), the dentaries (tooth-bearing bones of the lower jaw), ****ociated teeth, and other skull...
- In dental anatomy, the gingival sulcus is an area of potential space between a tooth and the surrounding gingival tissue and is lined by sulcular epithelium...
- joints, especially the elastic mandibular symphysis which permits both dentaries to be rotated independently in two planes. This flexible jaw, which made...
- (birds included), which is connected to all other lower jaw bones: the dentary (which is the entire lower jaw in mammals), the splenial, the suprangular...
- lizard", and the specific name honors the discoverer, Ruben Carolini. A dentary bone, a tooth, and some tracks, discovered before the holotype, were later...
- mammalian jaw joint is composed of different skull bones, including the dentary (the lower jaw bone which carries the teeth) and the squamosal (another...
- contains a single species, O. splendens, known from a fragmentary left dentary. The Opalios holotype specimen, AM F132596–AM F132599, was discovered in...
- differs from modern teiids with the following traits: deep m****ively built dentary with heavy ornamentation below inferior alveolar foramina (at least in...
- characterized by having narrow and tall dentaries compared to other monotremes, and a prominent ascending ramus of the dentary. Flannery, Timothy F.; Archer, Michael;...