temporomandibular

Etymology

temporo- + mandibular

adj

  1. of or relating to both the temporal bone and mandible
    It shows that several key mammalian evolutionary innovations in the ear region, the temporomandibular joint, and the brain vault evolved incrementally through mammaliaform evolution and long before the differentiation of the living mammal groups. May 25, 2001, Zhe-Xi Luo et al., “A New Mammaliaform from the Early Jurassic and Evolution of Mammalian Characteristics”, in Science, volume 292, number 5521, →DOI, pages 1535–1540

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