1856 Mayne Expos. Lex. ,Mentolabialis..mentolabial.
1857 Dunglison Med. Lex. 585Mento-Labial Furrow.
1866 Macalister in Proc. R. IrishAcad. IX. 451A small muscular mento-hyoidean band..existed single in one subject.
Ibid. 468Mento-hyoid muscle.
1867 ― Ibid. X. 163The platysma myoides, the mento-hyoid, Lucas' fibres in the axilla . [ etc.]
1877 Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. 172The mento-Meckelian element of the mandible.
1883 Huxley Pract. Biol. 220At the..symphysial end it is ossified to form the mento-Meckelian bone. [ Meckel's cartilage]
1892 J. A. Thomson Outl. Zool. 449The mento⁓meckelians seem to arise from two lower labial cartilages.
1925 J. S. Kingsley Vertebr. Skeleton 71The other cartilage bone is a mentomeckelian, best known in Anura, at the symphysis of the lower jaw.
mento-
combining form
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin mentum — more at mental
: chin : chin and
< mentoanterior >
< mentocondyloid >
< mentoanterior >
< mentocondyloid >