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Jawless vs Agnathic - What's the difference?

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Jawless is a synonym of agnathic.


As adjectives the difference between jawless and agnathic

is that jawless is lacking a jaw while agnathic is jawless.

jawless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Lacking a jaw.
  • agnathic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Jawless.
  • * 1980 , Thomas Pozorski, “The Early Horizon Site of Huaca de los Reyes: Societal Implications”, American Antiquity , volume 45, page 104:
  • […]the heads are inverted and agnathic (lacking a lower jaw)[…].
  • * 2004 , V. B. Rastogi, Modern Biology , seventh edition, Pitambar, ISBN 81-209-0496-6, page II-61:
  • Mouth is without jaws (agnathic ) in lampreys and hagfishes and bounded by jaws (gnathic) in all other vertebrates.
  • * 2004 , David H. Dye, “Art, Ritual, and Chiefly Warfare in the Mississippian World”, Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand , Art Institute of Chicago, ISBN 0-300-10601-7, page 201:
  • Mortal combat and decapitation are suggested by the eight skillfully and gracefully engraved heads depicted here with their serrated necks, the prominent arrowheads, and the agnathic or jawless head regalia.
  • (pathology) Afflicted by or characteristic of agnathia.
  • * 1902 , Bertram C. A. Windle, “Twelfth Report on Recent Teratological Literature”, Journal of Anatomy and Physiology , volume 36, page 303:
  • […]an imperforate pharynx which existed in an agnathic lamb.
  • * 1913 , John H. Musser, A Practical Treatise on Medical Diagnosis for Students and Physicians , sixth edition, Lea & Febiger, page 87:
  • In the mouth: various irregularities, such as wide separation of the teeth; abnormal development of the canines; the prognathic or agnathic jaw; high arching of the palate; cleft palate—all are found more frequently among persons otherwise degenerate than in normal individuals.
  • * 2006 , Karen Gripp and Luis Fernando Escobar, “Facial Bones”, Human Malformations and Related Anomalies , second edition, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-516-568-3, page 287:
  • Most pregnancies with agnathic fetuses are associated with polyhydramnios, which probably result from fetal inability to swallow because of persistence of the oropharyngeal membrane.

    Synonyms

    * (jawless) agnathous, jawless * (afflicted by agnathia) agnathous