Twitter Google Share on Facebook mandible (redirected fromJaw bone) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia man·di·ble (măn′də-bəl) n. 1.The lower jaw of a vertebrate animal. 2.Either the upper or lower part of the beak in birds. ...
such as thespleen, thethymus, or thelymph glands, are described as malignantlymphomas. The termlymphomais often used without the qualifiermalignantto denote cancerous lymphoid tumours; however, this usage can be confusing, since the suffix-oma, as mentioned above, more properly designates a benign...
Physiological modifications in near weightlessness, as experienced by astronauts during space flight, have been the subject of numerous studies. Various animal models have been used on space missions or in microgravity simulation on ground to understand the effects of gravity on living animals. Here, ...