Or*thog"na*thous (?), a. [Ortho- + Gr. the jaw.] Anat.
Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.
© Webster 1913.
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