Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition of having an abnormally short lower jaw.
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Examples
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The bull-dog, for example, displays this, but in this instance the deformity is really superior brachygnathism, the superior maxilla being arrested in development.
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The bull-dog, for example, displays this, but in this instance the deformity is really superior brachygnathism, the superior maxilla being arrested in development.
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Although null mutations induced in the mouse do not confer a severe skeletal phenotype, they do result in mild brachygnathism in the double mutant; thbs1 −/−, thbs2 −/−
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Danika Bannasch et al. 2010
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