lower jaw region

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 human body.

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 39 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of mouth.

Supply and innervation

Venous drainage: mental vein.

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: alveolar canal, chin, cingulum of lower canine tooth, cingulum of lower incisor tooth, epithelium of parotid gland and epithelium of submandibular gland, and 27 more.
• Develops from: mandibular prominence.
• has skeleton: skeleton of lower jaw.
• Drained by: mental vein.

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?

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.