Paired, cylindrical, and small bones of endochondral origin that lie anteromedial to the anterior end of Meckel's cartilage. The precursors of the mentomeckelian bones are the larval infrarostral cartilages. [ AAO:0000301 ]
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- endochondral bone
- bone of lower jaw
- develops from some infrarostral cartilage
- part of some skeleton of lower jaw
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