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unusual facts about jaw



1948–49 NHL season

Montreal lost Elmer Lach with a fractured jaw when he collided with Toronto defenceman Bob Goldham, and Emile "Butch" Bouchard injured a knee.

1984 European Cup Final

An ill-tempered first leg, which saw Liverpool captain Graeme Souness break the jaw of Dinamo midfielder Lică Movilă, was won 1–0 by Liverpool.

2005 NRL season

Johnathan Thurston won the 2005 Dally M Medal by a single point from Newcastle's Andrew Johns, despite Johns missing over a third of the season with a broken jaw.

Angular

Angular bone, a large bone in the lower jaw of amphibians and reptiles

Angulomastacator

Angulomastacator (meaning "bend chewer", in reference to both the shape of its upper jaw and to the Big Bend area of the Rio Grande, where the type specimen was found) is a genus of duck-billed dinosaur from the Campanian-age (Late Cretaceous) Aguja Formation of Big Bend National Park, Texas.

Anina

Nicknamed "Ion din Anina" (John of Anina), the remains (the lower jaw) are some 40,000 years old.

Ankalagon saurognathus

According to Tolkien, "Ancalagon" translates from Sindarin as being anc 'jaw', alag 'impetuous'.

Bradley Davies

Within the first minute of the game, All Blacks hooker Andrew Hore swung his right arm, hitting Davies hard in the jaw from behind and knocking him unconscious.

Charactosuchus

In 1969, a lower jaw of a crocodilian that dated back to the Lutetian stage of the Eocene was found in Saint James Parish, Jamaica, and was described as belonging to a new species of Charactosuchus named C. kugleri.

Dennis Herod

From 1943 Herod saw action in North Africa and Italy and narrowly escaped with his life when his tank received a direct hit in Normandy in August in 1944, receiving only a fractured jaw.

Doratorhynchus

In 1868 Seeley had obtained a vertebra and a jaw, from a quarry near Langton Matravers; in 1869 he had named these Pterodactylus macrurus.

Dorygnathus

The first remains of Dorygnathus, isolated bones and jaw fragments from the Schwarzjura, the Posidonia Shale dating from the Toarcian, were discovered near Banz, Bavaria and in 1830 described by Carl Theodori as Ornithocephalus banthensis, the specific name referring to Banz.

Dudley W. Morton

There he received the nickname "Mushmouth", after a character in the cartoon strip Moon Mullins whose large square jaw and prominent mouth resembled Morton's.

Dukecynus

Dukecynus was discovered in the strata of La Venta in the department of Huila and Tolima in Colombia, where the fossil remains were found: the lower jaw and upper jaw with teeth (holotype specimen IGM 251149), more some referred molar teeth.

Eric M. Genden

Eric M. Genden is an American otolaryngologist with the distinction of being the first surgeon to perform a jaw transplant in the United States.

Eritherium

The holotype (specimen number MNHN PM69) is now in the Musée d'histoire naturelle - Guimet in Lyon and includes an upper jaw (with approaches of the zygomatic bone and two maxillary branches, each of the two posterior premolars (P3 and 4) and three molars (M1-3)).

Eskbank, Saskatchewan

The hamlet is located about 15 km south of Highway 42 on Range road 20, approximately 50 km north-west of the City of Moose Jaw on the former Canadian Pacific Railway Tracks from Moose Jaw to Riverhurst.

Eudimorphodon

In 1986 fossil jaw fragments containing multicusped teeth were found in Dockum Group rocks in western Texas.

Fenriskjeften Mountain

It was plotted from air photos by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–39), mapped from surveys and air photos by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–60), and because of its shape named Fenriskjeften (Fenrir's jaw), after the wolf in Norse mythology.

Fish jaw

Shark teeth are embedded in the gums rather than directly affixed to the jaw, and are constantly replaced throughout life.

George Kell

A favorite story of his was about the incident when his jaw was broken by a line drive off the bat of Joe DiMaggio.

Gnathosaurus

Fragments of Gnathosaurus jaw were first discovered in 1832 in the Solnhofen limestones of southern Germany but were mistaken for a piece of teleosaurid crocodile jaw, hence the synonym Crocodylus multidens.

Gösta Larsson

Mr. Larsson, a Swede who was edentulous at the time and had been born with severe chin and jaw deformities, agreed to the test because he wanted to have teeth again.

Jew's harp

The bamboo jaw harp, known as kubing or kumbing is used by various Filipino peoples throughout the Philippine archipelago, and features in various neo-folk songs by artists like Joey Ayala and Grace Nono.

Joanna Jepson

Jepson was born with a congenital jaw defect - her top jaw stuck out by eight millimetres and her lower jaw hung down into her neck.

Joey Ayala

Some of the Filipino ethnic instruments Ayala is known to use include the two-stringed Hegalong of the T'Boli people of Mindanao, the Kubing, the bamboo jaw harp found in various forms throughout the Philippines, and the 8-piece gong set, Kulintang, the melodical gong-rack of the indigenous peoples of the southern part of the country.

Just Add Water

JAW: A Playwrights Festival, previously Just Add Water/West, an annual event produced by Portland Center Stage

Labidiosuchus

This condition of the lower jaw is shared with many ziphosuchians, such as Adamantinasuchus, Sphagesaurus, Notosuchidae and probably with Candidodon.

Mauthner cell

These neurons are electrically coupled with motoneurons which innervate extraocular, jaw and opercular muscles and mediate pectoral fin adduction in hatchetfish.

May Edward Chinn

Chinn's mother, who valued education, saved enough money from cooking to send Chinn to the Bordentown Manual and Training Industrial School, a New Jersey boarding school, until Chinn contracted osteomyelitis of the jaw.

Morton Bagot

In 1805 The Times noted with some amusement that the local priest had dislocated his jaw when attempting a particularly loud Amen.

North Berwick Law

John Henry Devereux South Carolina architect who used whale jaw bones to adorn the largest mansion on Sullivan's Island

Office for Judicial Complaints

On 23 January 2010 Cherie Booth QC, wife of Tony Blair (who until recently had been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), was sitting as a Recorder in a case where a man was found guilty violent assault in which he broke another man's jaw in a queue in a bank.

Panthera leo fossilis

A 1.75 million- year-old lion-jaw from Olduvai in Kenya shows a striking similarity to those of Europe.

Paranthodon

It owes its name to the fact that its jaw was found near the fossils of a Permian pareiasaur named Anthodon.

Phil Daley

After breaking his jaw in the State of Origin exhibition game in Los Angeles in 1987, Daley spent five weeks on the sidelines as Manly made their charge towards the Grand Final.

Procrustes analysis

Shape analysis is used in biological data to identify the variations of anatomical features characterised by landmark data, for example in considering the shape of jaw bones.

Radium jaw

The symptoms are necrosis of the mandible (lower jawbone) and the maxilla (upper jaw) as well as constant bleeding of the gums and (usually) after some time, severe distortion due to bone tumours and porosity of the lower jaw.

Ray Boughen

He is also a former charter member of the Wakamow Rotary Club and a current member of the Moose Jaw Rotary Club, and was an interim president and CEO of the Regina Airport Authority.

S. M. Balaji

He specializes in repair of cleft palate, rhinoplasty, ear reconstruction, jaw reconstruction, facial asymmetry correction, dental implantology, maxillofacial surgery and Craniofacial surgery.

Saskatchewan Highway 1

A site in the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, an internationally acclaimed shorebird conservation strategy, is at the village of Chaplin approximately equal distance between Swift Current and Moose Jaw.

Sivapithecus

In 1982, David Pilbeam published a description of a significant fossil find — a large part of the face and jaw of a Sivapithecus.

String figure

The figure is described as a sling to set and bind a broken jaw, with the chin being placed in the center of the figure and the four loops tied near the top of the head.

Ted Rosenthal

One critic noted, "The rapport of the Mulligan group was amazing, particularly Gerry’s telepathic communication with outstanding pianist Ted Rosenthal ... The byplay with Rosenthal left me with my jaw hanging down" (Gene Lees, The Jazz Letter).

The Nameless City

In ancient times, the Nameless City was built and inhabited by an unnamed race of reptiles with a body shaped like a cross between a crocodile and a seal with a strange head common to neither, involving a protruding forehead, horns, lack of a nose and an alligator-like jaw.

Xenastrapotherium

aequatorialis (Johnson & Madden, 1997): Based on a piece of right lower jaw, found in the river Burgaya in the province of Cañar, Ecuador, in the Biblián Formation (Middle Miocene, 19 million years ago).

Yeeeah Baby

CMJ (4/24/00, p. 30) - "...Beams the spotlight on the Boricua bomber's unparalleled breath control and hilarious jaw-dropping wordplay."

Yordenis Ugás

" Later Ugás beat Russian Khabib Allakhverdiyev and in the final he outfought Romal Amanov from Azerbaidjan. Cubanet.org writes "Yordenis Ugas, a sharp, technically accomplished fighter but with a suspect jaw, won the lightweight gold for Cuba after an explosive toe-to-toe clash with Romal Amanov of Azerbaijan.


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