The human skull has many components. In fact, in an average adult human, the skull combines 22 bones. One of these bones is the mandible, more commonly known as the lower jaw. Recognized as one of the ...

Mandible comes from the Latin mandere – to chew with; –bula by means of. Early anatomists used the word maxilla for both jaws as L maxilla means just jaw bone and is not at all specific to upper or ...