Terms vs Agnathia - What's the difference?
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(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,
* 1907 , and T. Mitchell Prudden, A Text-Book of Pathology , eighth edition, William Wood,
* 2006 , Mark I. Evans et al., Prenatal Diagnosis , McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-8385-7682-6, page 240:
As nouns the difference between terms and agnathia
is that terms is while agnathia is (pathology) a birth defect in which the mandible is missing.agnathia
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- 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.
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- The lower jaw may be absent (agnathia ).
- As such, it is often accompanied by agnathia , a congenital absence of the mandible[…].