ORTHOGNATHOUS
\ˈɔːθəɡnˌaθəs], \ˈɔːθəɡnˌaθəs], \ˈɔː_θ_ə_ɡ_n_ˌa_θ_ə_s]\
Definitions of ORTHOGNATHOUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; - opposed to prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.
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Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; - opposed to prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.
By Noah Webster.
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or-thog'n[=a]-thus, adj. straight-jawed--also ORTHOGNATH'IC.--n. ORTHOG'NATHISM. [Gr. orthos, straight, gnathos, the jaw.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Having a vertical jaw. A term applied to the form of head in which the facial angle approaches the right angle.
By Robley Dunglison
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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