prognathous
adjective
having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
prognathism
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a word derived from
prognathous.
Example Sentences
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Mid-facial prognathism has a submedium incidence of 23 per cent and a medium of 13 per cent; the remainder lack the condition, except three individuals who are pronounced.
From A Racial Study of the Fijians by Norman E. Gabel
They show a marked tendency to prognathism, especially dental prognathism.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon
Inferior prognathism is observed in man as well as in animals.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
But of these fifty-eight school children only one had four abnormalities—malformed ears, strabismus, prognathism, and slight scaphocephaly.
From Mentally Defective Children by Alfred Binet
FACE: Six men are recorded as having pentagonal faces, 3 broad and 3 long; alveolar prognathism is noted in 2.
From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon
