mandible in dogs

A dentary bone that is the only bone in one of the lateral halves of the lower jaw skeleton. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the mandible is

A dentary bone that is the only bone in one of the lateral halves of the lower jaw skeleton. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the mandible is

It sits in the head, within the skeletal and digestive systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the mandible connects to

The atlas records 24 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity, anatomical system and lower jaw region, and 3 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the mandible. 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 lower jaw, lower jaw bone, inferior maxillary bone, mammaliam mandible, mandibulla and lower mandibula, and 2 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001684, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity, anatomical system, lower jaw region, skeletal system, skeleton and skeleton of lower jaw.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, bone element, bone of jaw and skeletal element.
• Attaches to: buccinator muscle.
• contains: alveolar ridge of mandible, mandible angular process, mandible condylar process, mandible coronoid process, mandible neck and mandible temporal crest, and 1 more.
• contributes to morphology of: jaw skeleton, mandible angular process and mandibular ramus.
• inserts into: masseter muscle and medial pterygoid muscle.
• originates from: depressor labii inferioris.

Questions

Where is the mandible?

It sits in the head, within the skeletal and digestive systems. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the mandible connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity, anatomical system, lower jaw region, skeletal system, skeleton and skeleton of lower jaw.

Is the mandible 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.