0 hook-shaped, like the beak of a crow (= a large black bird): --
a coronoid fracture
1 shaped like a crown (= a round object worn by a king or queen) --
Brain points out, the saber-toothed cats had a greatly reduced coronoid process and therefore a disadvantageously weak bite.
It arises from the side of the skull and inserts into the coronoid process of the mandible.
Slips of origin from the coronoid process or from the radius have been seen.
Frequently, the flexor pollicis longus muscle arises from the lower part of the coronoid process by a rounded bundle of muscular fibers.
The strong bite of the jaw is accredited to the strong temporalis muscle that attach from the skull to the coronoid process of the jaw.
It was named for a notch on its coronoid process which most likely was the insertion point for a chewing muscle, the adductor mandibulae externus.
It is directly inferior to the coronoid fossa anteriorly and to the olecranon fossa posteriorly.
The holotype is the anterior portion of the left mandible, from the symphysis to the splenial bone and containing portions of the coronoid.
