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Mandible vs Agnathia - What's the difference?

mandible | agnathia |

As nouns the difference between mandible and agnathia

is that mandible is the lower jaw, especially the lower jawbone while agnathia is (pathology) a birth defect in which the mandible is missing.

mandible

English

(wikipedia mandible)

Alternative forms

* mandibula

Noun

(en noun)
  • The lower jaw, especially the lower jawbone.
  • One of a pair of mouthparts of an arthropod designed for holding food.

    • Synonyms

    * (lower jaw) dentary, dentary bone, inferior maxillary bone, jawbone, submaxilla

    Derived terms

    * mandibular * mandibulate * mandibuliform * mandibulohyoid

    See also

    * jowl

    agnathia

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (pathology) A birth defect in which the mandible is missing.
  • * 1831 , William West, translation of , A Treatise on Pathological Anatomy , Hodges and Smith, volume 2, page 283:
    • When there is agnathia , instead of the inferior maxillary bone we find nothing but a kind of tubercle formed of skin, cellular tissue, fat, and some few muscular fibres.
  • * 1907 , and T. Mitchell Prudden, A Text-Book of Pathology , eighth edition, William Wood, page 304
    • The lower jaw may be absent (agnathia ).
  • * 2006 , Mark I. Evans et al., Prenatal Diagnosis , McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-8385-7682-6, page 240:
    • As such, it is often accompanied by agnathia , a congenital absence of the mandible[…].

    Related terms

    * agnath * agnatha * agnathan * agnathous

    References

    * English terms with alpha privatives English words suffixed with -ia