mandibular retraction

mandibular retraction
1. drawing back or retracting the mandible, accomplished by contraction of the middle and posterior parts of the temporal muscles and the suprahyoid muscle. the condition of the mandible in which it lies posterior to the orbital plane. Cf. mandibular protraction.

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