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JUGAL, another name for the malar or cheek bone. 

 JUGULAR, pertaining to the neck or throat. 

 LABIAL SHIELDS, the plates around a snake's lips. 

 LACHRYMAL, the bone between the ascending process of 



the palatine, the maxilla, and the frontal. 

 LAMELLIFORM, shaped like a thin plate. 

 LAMINATED, made up of thin plates. 



LAMINA, the upper portions of the sides of the neural arch. 

 LARYNX, the upper part of the windpipe, situated beneath the 



hyoid bone. 



LIGULATE, strap-shaped. 

 LOINS, the space between the lowest of the false ribs and the 



ilium. 

 LOPHODONT, having the tooth traversed by ridges, generally 



across the width of the jaw. 

 LUMBAR, pertaining to the loins. 

 LUNAR, the crescentic wrist bone lying nearest to the radius in a 



line with the third digit. 



MAGNUM, the wrist bone lying in front of the lunar and centrale. 

 MALAR, another name for the jugal, the bone articulating with the 



maxilla and the zygomatic process of the squamosal. 

 MALLEUS, the outermost of the bones of the ear. 

 MAMMAE, the paps or breaits. 

 MANDIBLE, the principal bone of the lower jaw. 

 MANUBRIUM, the presternum. 

 MAXILLA, the principal bone of the upper jaw. 

 MAXILLO-TURBINAL, the smaller bone of the nasal cavity, 

 MEATUS, an opening or passage. 

 MEDIUS, the middle finger. 

 MESETHMOID, the ossified or cartilaginous segment in front of the 



pre-sphenoid. 



MESOSCAPULA, the outwardly projecting plate of the scapula. 

 MESOSTERNUM, the body of the breastbone, having the pre- 

 sternum at the fore end and the xiphisternum at the hinder 



end. 

 METACARPALS, the series of bones at the root of the hand 



between the carpals and the phalanges. 

 METACONE, the inner primary cusp of an upper tooth. 

 METACONID, the inner primary cusp of a lower tooth. 

 METACROMION, the hinder diverging process of the acromion. 

 METAPODIALS, the metacarpals and metatarsals. 

 METAPOPHYSIS, the mammillary process, the upper accessory 



process of the neural arch which projects forwards and 



outwards. 

 METAPTERYGOID, the separate ascending portion of the 



quadrate. 

 METATARSALS, the series of bones between the tarsals and the 



phalanges. 



MINIMUS, the fourth, or little, finger. 

 MOLARS, the back teeth or grinders. 

 MONOCONODONT, having but one cusp to the tooth. 

 MONOPHYODONT, having no milk teeth, aad consequently 



tjaving only one set instead of two. 



