Mental tubercle

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Mental tubercle
Latin tuberculum mentale mandibulae
Gray's subject #44 172
Dorlands/Elsevier t_21/12828979

The symphysis menti 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.

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