Sentences with phrase «of upper jaw»

Other techniques include pressing your tongue against the roof of your mouth, pressing the bit of the upper jaw just below your nose, or squeezing the little indentation in your forehead just above your nose.

To do this, they roll on their sides and swim slowly along, filtering their food through coarse baleen plates, of which they have 130 - 180 on each side of the upper jaw.

An under - bite (under shot, reverse scissors bite, prognathism, class 3) occurs when the lower teeth protrude in front of the upper jaw teeth.

Gently grasp your dog's muzzle from above with your other hand, by placing your thumb behind the canine teeth on one side of the upper jaw and your fingers on the other.

Thus the reality is that all of these Toy breeds, with the possible exception of the Affenpinscher, should have essentially the same bite: «the front teeth of the lower jaw overlapping the front teeth of the upper jaw when the mouth is closed,» with neither the teeth nor tongue showing.

If allowed to progress without treatment, the infection can travel through the bone of the upper jaw and break out as an abscess either on the gums over the tooth, or on the skin under the eye.

Premolar tips of the lower jaw should point between the spaces of the upper jaw teeth.

An under bite occurs when the lower teeth protrude in front of the upper jaw teeth.

The size and shape of the upper jaw fragment suggests that the creature was about 4 meters long, with some other species in the Helicoprion genus measuring almost twice that length.

Now, an x-ray CT scan of a particularly well - preserved fossil unearthed in Idaho in 1950 — one that includes 117 teeth, the cartilage on which they were attached, and part of the upper jaw — reveals that the whorl resided within the animal's lower jaw (artist's concept above), researchers report online today in Biology Letters.

The new fossil — a piece of upper jaw with several teeth, found in Misliya Cave on the western slopes of Mount Carmel in Israel — adds another wrinkle to the story.

The most conspicuous characteristic of male narwhals is their single extraordinarily long tusk, which is a tooth that projects from the left side of the upper jaw and forms a left - handed helix.

Mucron organ, for instance, refers to a small, circular organ on the side of the mucron, or toothless section of the upper jaw, and which turned out to be common in solifuges although it had never been mentioned before.

Premaxillae are the small bones at the tip of the upper jaw of most animals, but are enlarged and fused to form the beak of birds.

Hayes, a diplomat and fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, says that the sucking puts pressure on the sides of the upper jaw and the soft tissue on the roof of the mouth.

Instead of teeth, baleen whales have rows of strong, closely spaced baleen plates along both sides of their upper jaws.

Not exact matches

In layman's terms, Godín got surgery on his two incisors in his upper jaw and the «dentoalveolar» refers to the unity of the teeth and the jaw.

In each of the upper and lower jaws 4 incisors grow.

It makes sense when you think about it; it is the lower jaw doing most of the work, therefore, you want more tissue in the lower jaw than upper.

The roof of your mouth is connected to your upper jaw, and when your baby sucks too forcefully on a bottle it can potentially cause improper teeth alignment in the future because the tops of their mouths are not developing into a fitting arch for appropriate development.

Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly was released from a New York City hospital on Saturday, 17 days after undergoing a 12 - hour upper jaw reconstruction.

James Kirkland, state palaeontologist at the Utah Geological Survey, identified the tooth as coming from the upper jaw of a lungfish in the extinct genus Ceratodus, a freshwater bottom - feeder which used massive tooth plates to crunch shelled animals.

Armed with six rows of teeth, almost all snakes also have extremely mobile upper jaws.

Baleen whales are a group of Mysticeti, large whales usually from colder waters that lack teeth but have baleen plates in the upper jaw which are used to filter food such as krill out of large quantities of seawater.

The word anam means lake in a Kenyan dialect; the fossils — including some teeth, parts of the upper and lower jaws, an arm bone, and these two pieces of a shinbone — were found near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya.

ALL TEETH While researchers have only the dinosaur's upper jaw bone and some teeth, this reconstruction takes a stab at a portrait of Matheronodon provincialis, a new species.

Although the Misliya fossil — which includes a partial upper jaw, intact teeth, part of the cheekbone, the roof of the mouth and the bottom of the nasal opening — displays a few features in common with Neandertals and other ancient Homo groups, several dental traits appear only in H. sapiens, Quam says.

Allosaurus slammed its upper jaw into its victims, ripping off flesh with its sharp teeth, says Emily Rayfield of the University of Cambridge.

According to Wilson, monoclonal antibodies from (deliberately infected) animals were routinely used in the first half of the 20th century to try to treat diphtheria (an upper - respiratory illness that killed roughly 15,000 people annually in the early 1920s until a vaccine was formulated against it in 1924) and tetanus (a potentially fatal infection also known as lockjaw, because one of the muscles it destroys is in the jaw).

Living in the Karoo, near Colesberg in South Africa, the Euchambersia developed a deep and circular fossa, just behind its canine teeth in the upper jaw, in which a deadly venomous cocktail was produced, and delivered directly into the mouth through a fine network of bony grooves and canals.

Mead unearthed the beak portion of the skull, 2.6 feet long and 1.8 feet wide, specifically the maxillae and premaxillae, the bones that form the upper jaw and palate.

Baleen whales like the blue whale suck in enormous mouthfuls of water and then force it out through the baleen filter hanging from their upper jaw, retaining prey such as krill and small fish.

In this week's issue of Nature, a team led by Yohannes Haile - Selassie, a paleoanthropologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio, reports uncovering parts of two upper jaws and two lower jaws, plus some associated teeth, from a new possible species in the Afar region of Ethiopia, just 35 kilometers north of where Lucy was found.

Comparing volume and activity of the cells that break down bone density in the upper and lower jaw bones of Medaka fish after 56 days spent aboard the International Space Station with those on the ground.

Myers identified the new pterosaur from a partial upper jaw — specifically the tip of the blunt snout, or rostrum.

Both fossils — a lower jaw and an upper premolar — were examined using state - of - the - art computer tomography, allowing the scientists to look at their internal structures.

The water it takes in at the same time as its food is pushed out of the mouth by its enormous tongue, through strainer - like baleen plates which hang down from the upper jaw.

The holotype upper jaw of Australopithecus deyiremeda (BRT - VP - 3 / 1) found in Ethiopia on March 4, 2011, is shown in this image released to Reuters on May 26, 2015.

The discovery of this fossil evidence, which consists of bones from the upper and lower jaws, suggests that our family tree has more branches than previously believed and is far from linear.

The upper jaw retains eleven of the dinosaur's teeth, each of which measures about 4 inches long.

Jaw teeth small and depressible; upper and lower jaws with bands of villiform teeth, bands broadest anteriorly; largest teeth present along posterior portion of lower jaw.

This muscle also arises from the anterior process of of the upper jaw.

If the surgery was very deep and there is a chance that the maxillary (upper jaw) or mandibular (lower jaw) trigeminal nerve was injured, Hypericum perforatum 30C should also be taken at a different time of the day, but at a similar dosage schedule as the Arnica.

Are there areas of your upper body, back or jaw which causes you pain?

In theory, an adaptation of Disney's fawned - over classic doesn't sound all that appealing but when footage of Jon Favreau «s fixer - upper hit the big screens, jaws dropped.

Day - Lewis plays Reynolds Woodcock as an obsessive cousin of his Daniel Plainview in «There Will Be Blood,» with a clenched jaw, bulging forehead veins and intense unbroken gaze, filtered through a haughty upper - class lens and with a slight reserve of lanky screwball comedy.

It is a campaign to encourage veterinarians and pet owners to «Flip the Lip» of their pets and look for abnormalities in the mouth, whether it be periodontal disease, fractured teeth, oral tumors, orthodontic misalignment of teeth, fractured maxillas (upper jaws), fractured mandibles (lower jaws), sympysis separations, especially in cats (left and right mandibular separation), gingivitis, stomatitis and tooth resorptive lesion.

Aside from the leg injury, Delilah has a myriad of other ailments that have made her life a constant uphill struggle — including heartworm disease, corneal dystrophy, a progressive disease which has left her completely blind, and a fractured maxilla, or upper jaw, most likely a result of head trauma.

Firmly grasp the upper jaw with the thumb and index finger of the other hand.

Beyond tooth loss, however, severe periodontal disease can lead to pathological fractures of the lower jaw bones, and / or erosion of the ventral part of the nasal sinsus leading to an infection that spans the maxilla (upper jaw bone) and nasal sinsus, called an oronasal fistula.