lower jaw region in dogs
Subdivision of head that consists of the lower jaw skeletal elements plus associated soft tissue (skin, lips, muscle)[cjm]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the lower jaw region is
Subdivision of head that consists of the lower jaw skeletal elements plus associated soft tissue (skin, lips, muscle)[cjm]. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the dog.
Where the lower jaw region is
It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the lower jaw region connects to
The atlas records 22 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of mouth.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the lower jaw region. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.
Also called
Also recorded as mandibular part of mouth, lower part of mouth and mandibular series. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001710, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: mouth.
- A kind of: anatomical structure and organism subdivision.
- contains: chin, gingiva of lower jaw, lower central incisor tooth, lower central secondary incisor tooth, lower jaw incisor and lower jaw molar, and 11 more.
- Develops from: mandibular prominence.
- has skeleton: skeleton of lower jaw.
Questions
Where is the lower jaw region?
It sits within the digestive system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the lower jaw region connect to?
Part of: mouth.
Is the lower jaw region the same in other species?
This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.