jaw skeleton

Subdivision of skeleton which includes upper and lower jaw skeletons. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the jaw skeleton is

Subdivision of skeleton which includes upper and lower jaw skeletons. The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the human body.

Where the jaw skeleton is

It sits in the head, within the skeletal and digestive systems. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the jaw skeleton connects to

The atlas records 19 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of facial skeleton and mouth.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the jaw skeleton. 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 jaw, jaw cartilage, mandibular arch skeleton, anterior splanchnocranium, jaws and mandibular arch, and 3 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001708, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: facial skeleton and mouth.
A kind of: anatomical structure, organism subdivision and subdivision of skeleton.
contains: alveolar ridge, dento-alveolar joint, diastema, mandible, maxilla and palatine bone, and 4 more.
contributes to morphology of: mandible and maxilla.
overlaps: splanchnocranium.
develops into: premaxilla.

Questions

Where is the jaw skeleton?

What does the jaw skeleton connect to?

Part of: facial skeleton and mouth.

Is the jaw skeleton the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.