词根词缀：gnatho-, gnath-, -gnatha, -gnathan, -gnath, -gnathia, -gnathic, -gnathous

【来源及含义】Greek: jaw

【相关描述】The jaw is the name applied to the bones which contain the teeth.

The two upper jaw-bones, the maxillae, are firmly attached to the other bones of the face.

The lower jaw, the mandible, is shaped in a form similar to that of a horseshoe, and, after the first year of life, it consists of a single bone.

It forms a hinge-joint with the squamous part (thin, plate-like section) of the temporal bone, immediately in front of the ear.

Both the upper and the lower jaw-bones include deep sockets known as alveoli, which contain the roots of the teeth.

【同源单词】agnathia, anisognathous, atelognathia, brachygnathia, chaetognath, cheilognathoschisis

词根词缀：pro-, por-, pur-

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: a prefix signifying before; forward, forth; for, in favor of; in front of; in place of, on behalf of; according to; as, to place before; to go before or forward, to throw forward

【相关词根词缀】 Related before-word units: ante-; antero-; anti-; pre-.

【同源单词】portend, portent, portentous, portentously, portentousness, pro