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Osteology

Mandible, inferior view

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Image #46-3
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Osteology
Mandible, inferior view
1 . Mental protuberance
2 . Digastric fossa
3 . Sublingual fovea
4 . Body of mandible
5 . Angle of mandible
6 . Mental tubercle
7 . Mental spines (upper pointer indicates spine for origin of geniohyoid muscle, lower pointer that for origin of genioglossus muscle)
8 . Submandibular fovea
9 . Mylohyoid line
10 . Mylohyoid sulcus
11 . Capitulum
12 . Condyloid process
13 . Mandibular foramen
14 . Lingula of mandible