Word.ws English Dictionary

temporomandibular

temporomandibular adjective: of or relating to both the temporal bone and mandible.

Adjective

temporomandibular (not comparable)

  1. of or relating to both the temporal bone and mandible
    • It shows that several key mammalian evolutionary innovations in the ear region, the temporomandibular joint, and the brain vault evolved incrementally through mammaliaform evolution and long before the differentiation of the living mammal groups.2001 May 25, Zhe-Xi Luo et al., “A New Mammaliaform from the Early Jurassic and Evolution of Mammalian Characteristics”, in Science, volume 292, number 5521, →DOI, pages 1535–1540

Origin of temporomandibular

From temporo- + mandibular.

Words formed from temporomandibular

Phrases with temporomandibular

Words that rhyme with temporomandibular

24 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about temporomandibular

What does temporomandibular mean?
Temporomandibular means of or relating to both the temporal bone and mandible.
What part of speech is temporomandibular?
Temporomandibular is an adjective.

Words near temporomandibular in the dictionary

  1. temporofrontal
  2. temporogeographic
  3. temporolateral
  4. temporolimbic
  5. temporomalar
  6. temporomandibular
  7. temporomandibular joint
  8. temporomandibular joint dysfunction
  9. temporomandibular joint dysfunctions
  10. temporomandibular joints
  11. temporomaxillary

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: temporomandibular (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “temporomandibular.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/temporomandibular. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.