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ramus
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ramus [′rā·məs]
(anatomy)
A slender bone process branching from a large bone.
(vertebrate zoology)
The barb of a feather.
(zoology)
The branch of a structure such as a blood vessel, nerve, arthropod appendage, and so on.
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The mandibular ramus and body may be elongated, which will result in chin deviation toward the unaffected side when unilaterial.
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Multiple expansile cystic lesions were clearly identified bilaterally, and they primarily involved the mandibular ramus.
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Of particular surgical interest is a study of the mandibular ramus in stillborns by Sammarco et al.
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