CORONOID PROCESS OF THE MANDIBLE

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Meaning:

The coronoid process that provides an attachment for the temporal muscle

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("coronoid process of the mandible" is a kind of...):

coronoid process; processus coronoideus (a sharp triangular process projecting from a bone)

Meronyms (parts of "coronoid process of the mandible"):

coronion (the craniometric point at the tip of the coronoid process of the mandible)

Holonyms ("coronoid process of the mandible" is a part of...):

jawbone; jowl; lower jaw; lower jawbone; mandible; mandibula; mandibular bone; submaxilla (the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth)

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