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upper jawbone

n. the upper jawbone in vertebrates; it is fused to the cranium [syn: upper jaw, maxilla]

Usage examples of "upper jawbone".

Apart from a bruised upper jawbone and several loosened teeth, she was unharmed.

The snake's dripping fangs looked like a pair of back-curving, yellow scimitars jutting from its upper jawbone.

I dropped the bundle onto the desk and pulled the string and opened up the crumpled newspaper and Tilney stood looking down at the stuff I'd brought in, the two blackened number plates, wrist watch, bunch of keys, ring, metal cigarette-lighter, the upper jawbone, the lower one, while the reek of burnt flesh began filling the little room, sickening me, sickening him too, I would imagine, Tilney, looking down at the stuff and then bringing his head up.