Mental protuberance
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| Mental protuberance | |
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| Mandible. Outer surface. Side view. (Mental protuberance labeled at bottom left.) | |
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| Side view of the skull. (Mental protuberance visible but not labeled.) | |
| Latin | protuberantia mentalis |
| Gray's | subject #44 172 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | p_38/12673883 |
The symphysis of the external surface of the mandible divides below and encloses a triangular eminence, the mental protuberance, the base of which is depressed in the center but raised on either side to form the mental tubercle.
[edit] Popular culture
The mental protuberance was the answer for the "Puzzler" on Car Talk for 4/11/97.[1]
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