Mandible

The mandible and maxilla of bedbugs are modified into two sharp stilettos suitable for sticking in a fruit or on the veins of a leaf so that it can suck the nutritious sap of the plant (stinging-sucking mouthparts).

Purrazzo comes off the top rope right into a mandible claw.

The Fiend wins by pinfall with a Mandible Claw slam to retain the WWE Universal Championship.

When the prehistoric ant group disappeared -- scientists estimate the last of the hell ants died out at the end of the Cretaceous -- so did their unusual mandible physiology.

No DNA has been extracted from that ancient mandible), but that said, its form is archaic, retaining some characteristics of Homo erectus and some Neanderthal traits.

The Fiend caught him with the mandible claw.

Post match: The White Rabbit held onto the mandible claw past the bell then lifted up his glow to reveal blood on it.

However, in Mel Blanc's autobiography, That's Not All Folks!, he contradicts that conventional belief, writing, "It seemed to me that such an extended mandible would hinder his speech, particularly on words containing an s sound.

However, the relevant part of the mandible is not present in any fossils.

In his extensive study of the skull, Vesalius claimed that the mandible consisted of one bone, whereas Galen had thought it was two separate bones.

Keith later recalled, "Such was the end of our long friendship." citation As early as 1913, David Waterston of King's College London published in Nature his conclusion that the sample consisted of an ape mandible and human skull.

Most members of the genus Falco show a "tooth" on the upper mandible Other studies have confirmed that the hierofalcons are a monophyletic group–and that hybridization is quite frequent at least in the larger falcon species.

Physical description Anatomy and dimensionsmain Differences between gray wolf and coyote Gray wolf skeleton Wolf mandible diagram showing the names and positions of the teeth.

Their main functions are altering the tongue's position allowing for protrusion, retraction, and side-to-side movement. citation The genioglossus, arises from the mandible and protrudes the tongue.

The lower jaw transforms into the big mandible of the carnivorous adult, and the long, spiral gut of the herbivorous tadpole is replaced by the typical short gut of a predator.

The noise indicates that the articular disc has suddenly moved to and from a temporarily displaced position (disk displacement with reduction) to allow completion of a phase of movement of the mandible.

The smaller members of the order have a comb-like mandible, made by the tomial plate, for plankton feeding.

The temporomandibular joint is high and the mandible is enlarged.

The upper lip was large and broad, and extended so far beyond the mandible, that the mouth appeared to be located underneath the skull.

Together, these ligaments act to restrict the extreme movements of the joint. citation Muscles of mastication main The muscles of mastication are paired on each side and work together to produce the movements of the mandible.