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Agnathia means (pathology) A birth defect in which the mandible is missing..
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/æɡˈneɪ.θi.ə/ · noun
(pathology) A birth defect in which the mandible is missing..
When there is agnathia, instead of the inferior maxillary bone we find nothing but a kind of tubercle formed of skin, cellular tissue, fat, and some few muscular fibres.
The lower jaw may be absent (agnathia).
As such, it is often accompanied by agnathia, a congenital absence of the mandible[…].
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Agnathia means (pathology) A birth defect in which the mandible is missing..
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When there is agnathia, instead of the inferior maxillary bone we find nothing but a kind of tubercle formed of skin, cellular tissue, fat, and some few muscular fibres.
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