buccomandibular
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to, or connecting, the cheek and the mandible
Example Sentences
- "The venous drainage of the ventral oral region (e.g., tongue) is to the tracheal vein (S1 File : Views of Figs 9, 10 and 11 ), bypassing the head and draining into the heart, although a small anastomosis with the lateral head vein, via the buccomandibular vein [1 ], does occur at the level of the jugular constrictor muscle."
Etymology
From bucco- + mandibular.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: bucco