Thesaurus results for MANDIBLE

mandible

noun

as in maxilla

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Recent Examples of mandible On April 10 of this year, the dog was found with another bone — a femur this time — in the yard, and a search of the property also turned up a human mandible, or jawbone, that also belonged to the same victim. —

David Chiu, PEOPLE, 25 Dec. 2025 Even in a single hole of a mandible, there are up to six generations of bees coming back to that same single hole. —

Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025 Thanks to Stan Winston’s extraordinary design and the need for endlessly franchised creature features, the interstellar intruder with the mandibles and dreadlocks kept coming back to Earth, hunting everyone from 18th century Native American tribes to future-shocked L.A. cops. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025 Similar to a mouthguard, a MAD holds the lower jaw (mandible) and tongue forward, keeping the airway open. —

New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mandible

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maxilla

Noun

The jugal bone, or what could be called the cheekbone, and the maxilla, or jawbone, are fused, Bertozzo said.

— Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office decided to reopen the Gacy file in 2011 as a cold case, exhuming bone fragments and sending eight sets of mandibles and maxilla to the CHI lab in Fort Worth for DNA processing.

— David Montesino, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2024