Translation for 'upper jaw' from English to Swedish

upper jaw

överkäke {u} [maxilla]anat.

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jaw

käke {u}anat.

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jaw harp

mungiga {u}mus.

munharpa {u}mus.

open-jaw wrench

u-nyckel {u}verktyg

jaw spanner [Br.]

u-nyckel {u}verktyg

upper

övre {adj}

Upper Sorbian

högsorbiska {u} [språk]ling.

upper case

versalisering {u}ling.

upper class

överklass {u}sociol.

upper arm

överarm {u}anat.

Upper Egypt

Övre Egypten {n}geogr.

upper lip

överläpp {u}anat.

upper [of a shoe]

yttermaterial {n}klädsel

• In most vertebrates, the jaws are bony or cartilaginous and oppose vertically, comprising an "upper jaw" and a "lower jaw".
• In humans, the upper jaw includes the hard palate in the front of the mouth.
• Orthognathic surgery – surgical cutting of bone to realign the upper jaw (osteotomy).
• If it is true that many early baleen whales also had teeth, these were probably used only peripherally, or perhaps not at all (again like Dall's porpoise, which catches squid and fish by gripping them against its hard upper jaw).
• Later in the breeding season the bill becomes pale ash-gray over most of the upper jaw and the basal third of the mandible.

• The remains consisted of one upper jaw. According to Kielan-Jaworowska and Hurum, 2001, (p. ...
• The well-developed connections between the maxilla, lacrimal, frontal and prefrontal would have made its entire upper jaw more rigid.
• Flamingos can open their bills by raising the upper jaw as well as by dropping the lower.
• Testing on the bones revealed that they are the remains of Eadgyth, from study made of the enamel of the teeth in her upper jaw.
• The maxilla is the main bone of the upper jaw. The premaxilla is a smaller bone forming the anterior of the animal's upper jaw.

• However, in 2011, the tooth was identified as the molar from a lower jaw, whereas the mummy from KV60 was missing a molar from its upper jaw, thus casting doubt on the supposed identification.
• In Khmer temple architecture, the kala serves as a common decorative element on lintels, tympana and walls, where it is depicted as a monstrous head with a large upper jaw lined by large carnivorous teeth, but with no lower jaw.
• The premaxilla, a bone of the upper jaw, is segmented, and the vomer has no teeth.
• The incisor teeth meet with the thick hard dental pad of the upper jaw.
• The neobatrachians all have a palatine bone, which braces the upper jaw to the neurocranium.

• The upper jaw is firmly attached to the posterior of skull.
• 0 mya, with the latest habilis being an upper jaw from Koobi Fora, Kenya, from 1.4 mya.
• Odd-toed ungulates have a long upper jaw with an extended diastema between the front and cheek teeth, giving them an elongated head.
• The nerve listings indicate the respective innervation (sensory distribution) of the trigeminal nerve branches within the nose, the face, and the upper jaw (maxilla).