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 Translation for 'jaw muscles' from English to Slovak
anat.
čeľustné svalstvo {n}
jaw muscles {pl}
Partial Matches
anat.
chrbtové svaly {pl}
back muscles
orn.zool.
lietacie svaly {pl}
flight muscles
napnúť svaly [dok.]to tense one's muscles
anat.
čeľusť {f}
jaw
čeľustný {adj}jaw [attr.]
hudba
drumbľa {f}
jaw harp
kvákať [nedok.] [dlho hovoriť]to jaw [coll.]
trepať [nedok.] [dlho hovoriť]to jaw [coll.]
tárať [nedok.] [dlho hovoriť]to jaw [coll.]
anat.
čeľustná kosť {f}
jaw bone
anat.
čeľusť {f} [kosť]
jaw bone
kotkodákať [nedok.] [obr.] [han.] [veľa hovoriť]to jaw [coll.] [esp. women]
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Usage Examples English
  • The jaw muscles in "Probainognathus" were thought to have been positioned farther forward, with the masseter splitting into two separate muscles: the superficial masseter and the deep masseter.
  • It may have provided new attachment sites for jaw muscles.
  • The performer's use of the air, tightening of cheek and jaw muscles, as well as tongue manipulation can affect how the embouchure works.
  • A specific type of tinnitus, called "objective tinnitus", is characterized by hearing the sounds of one's own muscle contractions or pulse, typically a result of sounds that have been created by the movement of jaw muscles or sounds related to blood flow in the neck or face.
  • The muscles of the jaw give them the ability to grab and hold on to prey as well as create a negative pressure to suck in the prey and displace the jaw.

  • In that case, this skull modification would represent an early form of skull fenestration for jaw muscles.
  • Parrotfish cause a great deal of bioerosion using well developed jaw muscles, tooth armature, and a pharyngeal mill, to grind ingested material into sand-sized particles.
  • Early on, Lull postulated that the frills may have served as anchor points for the jaw muscles to aid chewing by allowing increased size and thus power for the muscles.
  • "Kannemeyeria" had a massive head with unusually large openings for the eyes, nostrils and jaw muscles.
  • Tetanus often begins with mild spasms in the jaw muscles—also known as lockjaw.

  • Georg Haas (1969) examined the evidence for the jaw muscles of two skulls (AMNH 5337 and 5405) and concluded that despite the large size of the skulls the associated musculature was relatively weak.
  • The jaw is raised or lowered to adjust the oral cavity for better reed control, but the jaw muscles are used much less for upward vertical pressure than in single reeds, only being substantially employed in the very high register.
  • The lower jaw is very deep, resulting in a lengthened moment arm of the jaw muscles.
  • It had large cavities for the eye and jaw muscles.
  • This arrangement allows for the attachment of larger, stronger jaw muscles, and enables the jaw to open more widely.

  • This extremely powerful and dangerous bite is generated by large jaw muscles (adductor mandibulae) that are attached closely to the tip of the jaw, conferring the piranha with a mechanical advantage that favors force production over bite speed.
  • Multituberculates would have been omnivorous; "Catopsbaatar" had powerful jaw muscles, and its incisors were well adapted for gnawing hard seeds, using a backwards chewing stroke.
  • As an early crocodilian relative, its skull featured more crocodilian characteristics than its earlier ancestors; it had short jaws that broadened out at the base of the skull, providing a large surface to which its jaw muscles could attach.
  • In the southernmost regions of its distribution, the pumpkinseed has developed a larger mouth opening and abnormally large jaw muscles to aid in feeding; its forage is small crustaceans and mollusks.
  • Dibamids, and particularly "Dibamus" was considered to be part of geckos and precisely the family of legless geckos; snakes, considering the organization of the skull and jaw muscles; or was proposed to be closely related to a group of fossorial skinks with elongated bodies and reduced limbs.

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