Mandible
Mandibula
Body carrying the lower teeth, and a ramus with a coronoid process for the temporalis, a condylar process for the jaw joint, and an angular process for the pterygoid and masseter.
About the mandible of the pig
Mandible is a bone of the head (head), a single structure on the midline. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Mandibula. You can turn it above, see it in place in the head of the pig, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.
Measured on the specimen
What the mandible is in contact with in the model itself, with the share of the other structure’s surface it covers. A contact is not always a joint: bones that simply lie against one another are in this list too.
- Maxilla5%
- Dens praemolaris II mandibularis11%
- Dens praemolaris III mandibularis8%
- Dens caninus mandibularis3%
- Dens molaris III mandibularis7%
Measured on the left side.
Terminology
- English
- Mandible
- Latin (NAV)
- Mandibula
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
The mandible in other animals
The same structure in the other animals in the Library, to compare.
Questions about the mandible
- What is the Latin name of the mandible?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the mandible is called Mandibula.
- Where is the mandible of the pig?
- Mandible is a bone of the head (head), a single structure on the midline.
See the mandible inside the whole pig.
Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the pig around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.
Free for 7 days, no card. After that the skeletons stay free.
