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MANDIBULE [11 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2026-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • First Aid
  • Respiratory Tract
OBS

Technique to open the airway by placing the fingers behind the angle of the jaw and bringing the jaw forward; used for patients who may have a cervical spine injury.

Key term(s)
  • jaw thrust maneuver
  • jaw thrust technique

French

Domaine(s)
  • Secourisme
  • Voies respiratoires
OBS

La subluxation de la mâchoire est une technique de premiers soins employée pour ouvrir les voies respiratoires lorsque la colonne cervicale doit rester immobile, car elle peut avoir subi une blessure.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Birds
DEF

The upper half of the bill.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oiseaux
DEF

Partie supérieure du bec.

Spanish

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Record 3 2016-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
Universal entry(ies)
Mandibula
Latin
CONT

The wax used for comb construction is produced from honey by young bees ... It is secreted slowly in small scales that are removed by the bee with specialized spines on its legs and transferred to its jaws where they are chewed into the necessary shape for building the comb.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Mandibula
Latin
CONT

[...] les mandibules, courtes, servent à façonner la cire.

OBS

Elles jouent un rôle principal dans la construction des rayons [...]

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Anatomy
DEF

A thin, flattened process projecting from the anterior portion of the upper border of the ramus of the mandible, and serving for the insertion of the temporal muscle.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anatomie animale
DEF

Saillie antérieure du bord supérieur de la branche montante de la mandibule.

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bones and Joints
DEF

The articular surface of the condyloid process of the mandible.

Key term(s)
  • head of the mandible

French

Domaine(s)
  • Os et articulations
DEF

Saillie oblongue reliée au bord supérieur de la branche montante de la mandibule par le col du condyle.

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Mouth
CONT

The mandible, the largest and strongest bone of the face, serves for the reception of the lower teeth. It consists of a curved, horizontal portion, the body, and two perpendicular portions, the rami, which unite with the ends of the body nearly at right angles.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cavité buccale
DEF

La mandibule, os impair, médian et symétrique, forme le squelette de l'étage inférieur de la face. Il est constitué d'un corps et de deux parties latérales, les branches montantes (ou ramus mandibulaire) qui s'élèvent aux deux extrémités postérieures du corps.

OBS

Ancienne nomenclature : maxillaire inférieur.

OBS

maxillaire inférieur : le Comité d'Étude des Termes médicaux français a rejeté le terme.

OBS

Radioanatomie du crâne du rocher, de l'orbite, des sinus, de la mandibule et des dents, L. Vivarrat-Perrin, F. Veillon, Hôpital de Hautepierre - Strasbourg.

Spanish

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Record 7 2000-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Birds
DEF

Lower part of the bill.

OBS

In the plural, it designates both the lower and upper parts of the bill.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oiseaux
DEF

Partie inférieure du bec.

OBS

Au pluriel, désigne aussi les deux parties du bec (supérieure et inférieure).

Spanish

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Record 8 1983-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

either of the two bones holding the teeth and framing the mouth in most vertebrates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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Record 9 1977-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

The mandibles [of an ostracode] are situated at the sides of the mouth (...). Each mandible consists of protopod, endopod, and exopod.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[La tête d'un Ostracode] est pourvue d'une paire de mandibules (...)

Spanish

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Record 10 1977-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Birds
CONT

[The Pelican's] great wings and bill pouch enable it to carry a whole fish that it catches.

OBS

"pouch" a baglike part, as of a pelican's bill or a gopher's cheeks, used to carry food.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oiseaux
OBS

"pélican:" Oiseau palmipède ("Pélécanidés"), au bec très long et crochu, muni à la mandibule inférieure d'une poche membraneuse dilatable, où il emmagasine la nourriture de ses petits.

Spanish

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Record 11 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Prosthetic Dentistry
OBS

(...) the words close and back are emphasized in order to cause the patient to retrude the mandible.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dentisterie prothétique
OBS

après réinsertion des maquettes, le patient est prié de placer sa mandibule dans sa position la plus reculée.

Spanish

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