A dorsal process on the lower jaw associated with muscle attachment. It may be formed by a separate coronoid bone or as a process of the dentary. In most living (and many extinct) mammals, the most dorsal of the three proximal processes of the jaw. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronoid_process_of_the_mandible http://palaeos.com/vertebrates/glossary/glossaryCh.html#Coronoid%20process ]
Synonyms: coronoid process of mandible processus coronoideus (mandibula)
Term information
- SCTID:244691004
- MA:0002819
- FMA:52833
- Wikipedia:Coronoid_process_of_the_mandible
pheno_slim
Term relations
- anatomical projection
- contributes to morphology of some mandibular ramus
- part of some mandible
- part of some mandibular ramus