agnathia

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A birth defect in which the mandible is missing.
 * 2) * 1831, William West, translation of Gabriel Andral, A Treatise on Pathological Anatomy, Hodges and Smith, volume 2, page 283:


 * When there is agnathia, instead of the inferior maxillary bone we find nothing but a kind of tubercle formed of skin, cellular tissue, fat, and some few muscular fibres.
 * 1) * 1907, Francis Delafield and T. Mitchell Prudden, A Text-Book of Pathology, eighth edition, William Wood, page 304
 * The lower jaw may be absent (agnathia).

Translations

 * French:
 * Occitan: agnatia
 * Portuguese: agnatia