Jaw
Opposable articulated structure at the entrance of the mouth / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the anatomical part. For the village in Bahrain, see Jaww. For the mountain, see The Jaw. For other uses, see Jaws (disambiguation) and Jawbone (disambiguation).
The jaws are a pair of opposable articulated structures at the entrance of the mouth, typically used for grasping and manipulating food. The term jaws is also broadly applied to the whole of the structures constituting the vault of the mouth and serving to open and close it and is part of the body plan of humans and most animals.