Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the quadrate bone and the lower jaw: as, the quadratomandibular articulation. See cut under
Lepidosiren .
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Examples
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The hornbill quadratomandibular ligament was only discovered in 1940, and as Walter Bock noted in 1964 it has been mostly overlooked and little studied.
Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006
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The hornbill quadratomandibular ligament was only discovered in 1940, and as Walter Bock noted in 1964 it has been mostly overlooked and little studied.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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In ground hornbills the anatomy of the quadratomandibular ligament makes it impossible for the upper jaw to be raised or lowered without an automatic lowering or raising of the lower jaw, and the ligament is so strong that the lower jaw stays connected to the skull even in dried skeletons (Burton 1984).
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Hornbills are also unusual in possessing a unique ligament – the quadratomandibular ligament – that connects the body of the quadrate with the inside surface of the lower jaw.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Hornbills are also unusual in possessing a unique ligament – the quadratomandibular ligament – that connects the body of the quadrate with the inside surface of the lower jaw.
Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006
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In ground hornbills the anatomy of the quadratomandibular ligament makes it impossible for the upper jaw to be raised or lowered without an automatic lowering or raising of the lower jaw, and the ligament is so strong that the lower jaw stays connected to the skull even in dried skeletons (Burton 1984).
Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006
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