Bone Features Flashcards
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Angle
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Mandible. Posterior, inferior corner of the mandible
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Alveolar process
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Mandible, maxilla teeth
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Coronoid process
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Mandible. Attachment point for the temporalis muscle
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Mental protuberance
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Mandible . the chin
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Horizontal plate
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Palatine . Posterior third of the hard palate.
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Mandibular condyle
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Mandible. Region where the mandible articulates with the skull
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Mandibular fossa
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Temporal. Depression where mandible articulates with skull
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Mastoid process
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Temporal. Enlargement posterior to the ear. Attachment site for several muscles that move the head
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Nuchal lines
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Occipital. Point of articulation between the skull and Bertram column.
