Osteology

Mandible, inferior view

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Image #46-3

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